Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural Values
Seeing Bullshit Rhetorically: Human Encounters and Cultural Values
Author(s): Leonard ShedletzkySubject(s): Social Sciences, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
Keywords: rhetoric of bullshit; intuition; pragmatics; worldview; reasoning
Summary/Abstract: This essay explores the idea that calling bullshit exemplifies Mercier and Sperber”s social intuitionist theory. It discusses a range of empirical research related to bullshit, including belief in the worldviews of Individualist vs. Communitarian and Hierarchical vs. Egalitarian with regard to accepting and rejecting ideas. Calling bullshit fits well with using the heuristics of like/not like and cognitive mechanisms of debunking misinformation.
Journal: Res Rhetorica
- Issue Year: 5/2018
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 31-44
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English