Bernhard Schieber

Rasa Aesthetics as Embodied Rhetoric

Knowledge

Rasa aesthetics examines how situations, bodily expression, suggestion, and receptive participation compose an aesthetic experience beyond literal content. Its historically changing accounts can guide expressive design, while audience response remains open and emotional intensity alone establishes neither ethical adequacy nor comprehension, behavioral effectiveness, or a universal emotion taxonomy.

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Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

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Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories

Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.

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