10 research outputs found
WorldCat Local Usability at UMD
Describes the first iteration of the WorldCat Local Usability Study conducted by University Libraries during spring of 2015, including study design and preliminary results
WorldCat Usability at UMD: Library Research & Innovative Practice Forum, June 8, 2016
This presentation provided the results of a two-round iterative study of WorldCat UMD usability.Library Research Fun
Terminology of Communication in Cross-Cultural Translation Processes and the Concept of Translatioo ((Metaphorr) for the Figuration of Speech. Studies in the Aristotelian Terms of the Rhetorica in Greek, English, German, French, and Arabic
âA Kind of Eloquence of the Bodyâ: Quintilianâs Advice on Delivery for the Twenty-First-Century Rhetor
Political Animals: Form and the Animal Fable in Langlandâs Rodent Parliament and Chaucerâs Nunâs PriestâsTale
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Decorum: Quintilianâs Reflections on Rhetorical Humor
Abstract
This study examines ancient Roman ideas about humorâs boundaries in public culture. In particular, I analyze Book 6, Chapter 3 of the Institutio Oratoria, which covers Quintilianâs reflections on the subject. Following Cicero, Quintilian engages the tensions between humor and decorum in his political context, using urbanitas to refine the former and to loosen the latterâs strictures. In this process, the use of urbanitas implicitly points readers toward factors that can make humor rhetorical. Quintilian thus answers Ciceroâs question about the degree to which humor should be used and furthers inquiry into how much rhetorical humor can or should be taught