{"id":33,"date":"2005-09-15T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T18:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/link-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T18:50:07","slug":"link-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/link-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric of the Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mroy.web.wesleyan.edu\/webliteracy\/linktropics.htm\">Rhetorics of the Web<\/a> (by Nicholas Burbules at Wesleyan University) is an often-cited overview of various kinds of hyperlinks and the rhetorical strategies that they employ. I&#8217;ve wondered whether his examples are too general, or even naive about the possibilities of the link.<\/p>\n<p>I see the central question of the link to be this: in what ways can the same surface text develop <strong>wildly different meanings <\/strong>depending upon its link?<\/p>\n<p>To begin to explore this question I&#8217;ve created a simple exercise: the same phrase&#8211;<em>Who lives in the White House<\/em>&#8211;repeated multiple times with a different link each time. What <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.byu.edu\/rhetoric\/silva.htm\">rhetorical strategies<\/a> are at work in each example? How does the tenor of the question change each time? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/president\/gwbbio.html\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?oi=map&#038;q=1600+Pennsylvania+Ave,+Washington,+DC\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/wm\/paint\/auth\/gogh\/gogh.white-house.jpg\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/meast\/04\/09\/sprj.irq.statue\/\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kremlin.ru\/eng\/\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchive.com\/artchive\/g\/goya\/saturn.jpg\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/201\/1721\/640\/jesus.jpg\">White House<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Who lives in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subservientchicken.com\/\">White House<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhetorics of the Web (by Nicholas Burbules at Wesleyan University) is an often-cited overview of various kinds of hyperlinks and the rhetorical strategies that they employ. I&#8217;ve wondered whether his examples are too general, or even naive about the possibilities of the link. I see the central question of the link to be this: in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/link-rhetoric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhetoric of the Link<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}