Third persona

Abstract: This project examined comedic representations of US Vice President Joe Biden to analyze persona rhetoric in a media environment filled with circulating personae, or the many roles both created by and attributed to such figures. While sometimes supportive of the politician's intended roles, we found that circulating personae can disrupt the first persona, complicate the invitations and control exerted over the second persona, propel strategic and non-strategic authorships deflecting or silencing a third persona, and provide an undertow of multiple meanings supplementing a fourth persona. Several implications are drawn, including how circulating personae may neuter roles important to political rhetoric and public culture.

Abstract: Part I: Critic/Purpose * Must We All Be 'Rhetorical Critics'? Barnet Baskerville * Criticism Ephemeral and Enduring, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell * Another Shooting in Cowtown, Thomas W. Benson * Rhetoric, Society and the Critical Response, Philip Wander and Steven Jenkins * Rhetorical Criticism as Moral Action, James F. Klumpp and Thomas A. Hollihan * Communication, Social Justice, and Joyful Commitment, Stephen John Hartnett * Leff in Context: What is a Critic's Role? Barbara Warnick * The Critic as Empath: Moving Away from Totalizing Theory, Celeste Michelle Condit * Criticism and Authority in the Artistic Mode, Bonnie J. Dow * Rethinking Critical Voice: Materiality and Situated Knowledges, Julia T. Wood and Robert Cox *"Voice" and "Voicelessness" in Rhetorical Studies, Eric King Watts * Performing Critical Interruptions: Stories, Rhetorical Inventions, and Environmental Justice Movement, Phaedra C. Pezzullo Part II: Object/Method * Gettsyburg and Silence, Edwin Black * Words the Most Like Things: Iconicity and the Rhetorical Text, Michael Leff and Andrew Sachs * Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture, Michael Calvin McGee * Object and Method in Rhetorical Criticism: From Wichelns to Leff and McGee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar * Literature as Equipment for Living, Kenneth Burke * Accidental Rhetoric: The Root Metaphors of Three Mile Island, Thomas B. Farrell and G. Thomas Goodnight * Fantasy and Rhetorical Vision: The Rhetorical Criticism of Social Reality, Ernest G. Bormann * Refitting Fantasy: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Talking to the Dead, Joshua Gunn * The Rhetoric of the American Western Myth, Janice Hocker Rushing * Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum, Greg Dickinson, Brian L. Ott, and Eric Aoki * Memory and Reconciliation at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Victoria J. Gallagher * Show/Down Time: "Race," Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, Thomas K. Nakayama * From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activisim, and the "Violence" of Seattle, Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples Part III: Theory/Practice * On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic, Robert Scott * Rhetoric as a Way of Being, Thomas W. Benson * Critical Models in the Analysis of Discourse, Thomas B. Farrell * Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism, David Zarefsky * Rhetorical Theory as Heuristic and Moral: A Pedagogical Justification, Barry Brummett * Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Quebecois, Maurice Charland * Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis, Raymie E. McKerrow * The Critique of Vernacular Discourse, Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop * The Materiality of Discourse as Oxymoron: A Challenge to Critical Rhetoric, Dana L. Cloud * Another Materialist Rhetoric, Ronald Walter Greene * Nietzsche and the Aesthetics of Rhetoric, Steve Whitson and John Poulakos * Cinema and Choric Connection: Lost in Translation as Sensual Experience, Brian L. Ott and Diane Keeling Part IV: Audience/Consequentiality * The Second Persona, Edwin Black * The Third Persona: An Ideological Turn in Rhetorical Theory, Philip C. Wander * Contextual Twilight/Critical Liminality: J.M Barrie's Courage at St. Andrews, 1922, Charles E. Morris III * The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy, Celeste Michelle Condit * Polysemy: Multiple Meanings in Rhetorical Criticism, Leah Ceccareli * The Spectacular Consumption of "True" African America Culture: "Wassup" with the Budweiser Guys? Eric King Watts and Mark P. Orbe * Vernacular Dialogue and the Rhetoricality of Public Opinion, Gerard A. Hauser * Out-Law Discourse: The Critical Politics of Material Judgment, John M. Sloop and Kent A. Ono * Enacting Red Power: The Consummatory Function in Native American Protest Rhetoric, Randall Lake * Creating Discursive Space through a Rhetoric of Difference: Chicana Feminists Craft a Homeland, Lisa A. Flores * Reflections on Criticism and Bodies: Parables from Public Places, Carole Blair * No Time for Mourning: The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the War on Terror, Barbara Biesecker * The Rhetorical Ritual of Citizenship: Women's Voting as Public Performance, 1868-1875, Angela G. Ray

Abstract: A method and system for sharing programs among first and second personas on a mobile technology platform equipped with a display. The method includes providing a first software application; in response to a user's launch of the first application in either the first persona or the second persona, starting the first application in a third persona; and in response to the user's launch of the first application in either the first persona or the second persona, switching the user from a persona of origin to the third persona, wherein the persona of origin is the persona in which the user launched the first application, wherein the first and second personas are defined as a set of user preferences associated with an operating system of the mobile technology platform.

Abstract: The article begins with a discussion of the development of the doctine with regard to the Holy Spirit. This development took place in three phases: from apocalypticism to the Nicene Creed to the Reformation. In the doctrine of the Triune God the Holy Spirit functions as the third persona. In the New Testament the Spiit of God should be seen against the background of intermediary and apocalyptic figures. A comparison of passages in Luke-Acts, the Gospel of John and Paul's letter to the Romans attests to a diversity of witnesses with regard to the Spirit of God. The aricle includes a discourse on the nature of the chaismatic gits of the Holy Spirit witnessed in 1 Cointhians 12. By way of conclusion, a list of recommended publications with regard to the Biblical witness of the Spirit of God is presented.