Reflective Blog Post

Ratcliffe takes Burke’s ideas and adds onto them by going off his definition of identification. She argues that you can use rhetorical listening to fully understand Burke’s lenses or terministic screens. Tis idea is that we see a world and that has been constructed by our experiences and comforts. Ratcliffe argues that because of the way we see the world differently as humans, is how we perceive identification. 

Burke’s idea that you can persuade someone through identification and relating to someone goes along with what Ratcliffe is saying. In order to understand and identify someone, you have to try to relate to them. Ratcliffe believes that through listening, you can reach a different level of understanding someone.