Logology and the Burkean Universe

Burke's idea of "logology" that we grappled with last week continues to fascinate me. I hope I didn't give the impression that I had this concept all figured out. The thing with the Socratic Seminar is that it can be deceptive: somehow the leader just "seems" to know all the answers and is just "pretending," like Socrates, that he doesn't know anything. I had some definite ideas on some of the questions we discussed and had a hard time not just spewing out my thoughts (and, as you know, such restraint is not typical for me!). In the case of logology, I'm still thinking and hope to have the opportunity (during vacation or maybe in another class) to read some more Burke. On the one hand, Burke's selection of religion as a discourse to read "as if it were talking about language rather than about God" seems random. Couldn't he just as easily have picked the discourse of, say, political science and said, we can treat political science as if it were not words about voter behavior but words about words? And yet, somehow, given the centrality of the concept of "logos" (a connection which, I think, Amy made, but which I hadn't made until that point) in Christianity, it doesn't seem random; there seems something about religion that lends itself, more than any other discourse, to a logological analysis. And yet...though I'm not as familiar as I would like to be with Burkean literary criticism, I can surmise based on his penchant for "dramatistic" analysis that it must be something very much in the spirit of a logology of literature: let's analyze literature not in terms of theme, setting, character development, etc. but let's look at it how speakers interact with speakers, how the language of the narrator interacts with the language of the characters, etc. I think since last week I'm stuck in a kind of Burkean Universe and keep asking myself, what if I analyzed this or that logologically: when my ex-girlfriend tells me to stop harrassing her or else she'll get a restraining order, she's not really revealing her feelings, but rather is telling me something about words...I just can't figure out what it is.