The rhetorical emergence of culture

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    • Meyer, Christian
    • Girke, Felix

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The rhetorical emergence of culture

edited by Christian Meyer & Felix Girke

(Studies in rhetoric and culture, v. 4)

Berghahn Books, 2011

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"Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric" - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions? The contributors do not rely on rhetorical "text" alone but engage the situational, bodily, and often antagonistic character of cultural and communicative practices. The social situation itself is argued to be the fundamental site of cultural creation, as will-driven social processes are shaped by cognitive dispositions and shape them in turn. Drawing on expertise in a variety of disciplines and regions, the contributors critically engage dialogical approaches in their emphasis on how a view from rhetoric changes our perception of people's intersubjective and conjoint creation of culture.

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List of Figures Preface Introduction Felix Girke and Christian Meyer PART I: INTERSUBJECTIVITY Chapter 1. The Dance of Rhetoric: Dialogic Selves and Spontaneously Responsive Expressions John Shotter Chapter 2. Co-opting Intersubjectivity: Dialogic Rhetoric of the Self John W. DuBois Chapter 3. Echo Chambers and Rhetoric. Sketch of a Model of Resonance Theory Pierre Maranda Chapter 4. Discourse beyond Language: Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and Nature Donal Carbaugh and David Boromisza-Habashi Chapter 5. The Spellbinding Aura of Culture. Tracing its Anthropological Discovery Bernhard Streck Chapter 6. Tenor in Culture Ivo Strecker PART II: EMERGENCE Chapter 7. Attending the Vernacular. A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric Gerard A. Hauser Chapter 8. Enhoused Speech: The Rhetoric of Foi Territoriality James F. Weiner Chapter 9. Transcultural Rhetoric and Cyberspace Filipp Sapienza Chapter 10. Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation Versus Conversion in Early-Modern Goa Alexander Henn Chapter 11. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony. An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern Ethiopia Felix Girke and Alula Pankhurst PART III: AGENCY Chapter 12. In Defense of the Orator. A Classicist Outlook on Rhetoric Culture Franz-Hubert Robling Chapter 13. Rhetoric, Anti-Structure, and the Social Formation of Authorship James Thomas Zebroski Chapter 14. Attention & Rhetoric: Prolepsis and the Problem of Meaning Todd Oakley Chapter 15. Emergence, Agency and the Middle Ground of Culture: A Meditation on Mediation Stephen A. Tyler Notes on Contributors Index

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