Ritual Communication From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony

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ISBN: 9780761915874 | 0761915877
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Copyright: 6/24/1998

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Ritual and ceremonial, as formal modes of conduct, are equally ubiquitous appearing in everything from modes of talk and rules of politeness to elaborate protocols for events of state. Ritual and rite, ceremonial and ceremony are symbolic social actions, modes of communication that implicate individuals in the social order, creating realities whilst expressing ideas and attitudes about them. This book combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a unique perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
What Is Ritual?
Descriptions and Definitional Strategy	p. 3
Social Life as Punctuated by Rites, Ceremonies, and Other Ritual Forms	p. 3
Ritual as a Symbolically Ordered Component of Nearly All Social Action	p. 4
Ritual as Noun and Adjective	p. 4
Definitional Strategy	p. 5
Definitions	p. 7
Common Terms of Definition	p. 7
A Communicative Principle and a Final Definition	p. 25
Five Inadequate Conceptions	p. 28
Habit and Routine	p. 28
Insincere Public Performance	p. 30
Empty Convention	p. 31
Stylistic, Symbolic, or Aesthetic Excess	p. 32
Ritual = Myth = Ideology = Lying or Confusion	p. 33
Four Only Partly Adequate Conceptions	p. 36
Ethological	p. 36
Freudian	p. 40
Sentiment and Solidarity	p. 41
Maintenance of the Status Quo	p. 43
Some Special Problems in the Study of Ritual	p. 46
Social Change	p. 46
Inventing Rituals	p. 50
Communication Theory and Ritual Problems	p. 53
Ritual Is a Communicative Form	p. 53
The Effective Mechanisms of Ritual Are Communicative Devices	p. 54
The Ordering (and Other) Effects of Ritual Are Subject to the Vicissitudes of Communication	p. 55
Symbolic Effectivity Is Real Effectivity	p. 56
Socially Constructed Reality Is Real Reality	p. 57
Within the Limits of Communicative Effectiveness, Ritual Is a Strong Form	p. 58
Symbolicity and Generality	p. 59
Materiality and Indexicality	p. 61
Backward and Forward References	p. 63
The Problem of the Relation of Witness and Spectator, Ritual and Spectacle	p. 64
The Phenomenal Status of the Ritual Text in the Actor's Environment	p. 65
Some Implications of the Peculiar Phenomenal Status of Ritual	p. 67
Ritual in Communication Research
Five Contributions of the Ritual Concept to Communication Studies	p. 73
Renaming as a Spur to Rethinking	p. 73
Help to Identify Unanalyzed Aspects of Things	p. 74
Help to Explain Anomalous Aspects of Things	p. 74
Help to Form More Appropriate Expectations of Things	p. 75
As Disciplinary Leverage	p. 76
Mediated Communication in Ritual Form	p. 78
Media Events and Mediated Rituals	p. 79
Ritualized Media Use	p. 82
Rituals of Media Work	p. 84
Television as Religion	p. 86
Ritual Functions of Mediated Culture	p. 89
News, Television, and Popular Culture as Myth and Ritual	p. 90
Moral Dramas	p. 92
Modeling of Social Roles	p. 93
Political, Rhetorical, and Civic Rituals	p. 96
The Symbolics of State and Power; Rituals of Political Oratory and Ceremony; Elections and Politics as Ritual	p. 96
Rhetorical Rituals and Ritual Rhetoric	p. 101
Public Festivals and Ceremonies	p. 103
Ritual Communication Forms in Everyday Secular Life	p. 105
Interpersonal and Microsocial Rituals	p. 105
Rituals of Style and Status	p. 110
Rituals of Contemporary Organizational Life	p. 113
Ritual Conceptions of Culture and Communication	p. 117
The Reformation and the Culture of Anti-Ritualism as a Matter of Communication Style	p. 117
A Ritual Conception of Communication	p. 123
The Necessity of Ritual to Humane Living	p. 129
References	p. 132
Author Index	p. 149
Subject Index	p. 155
About the Author	p. 159
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