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Original Articles

Beyond the "Tyranny of the Real": Revisiting Burke's Pentad as Research Method for Professional Communication

Pages 365-388 | Published online: 20 Nov 2009
 

Abstract

This article answers Carl Hemdl's call for furthering critical approaches to research in professional communication by forwarding Kenneth Burke's concepts of symbolic action, dramatism, and the pentad. This article illustrates, through an analysis of data gathered in a case study of technical writers, how Burke provides us with tools that can produce more varied terministic screens for how critical researchers conceptualize, interpret, and analyze workplace communication.

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