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Berghahn Books The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture 2011 Edition by Christian Meyer, Felix Girke
"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. Table of contents :- List of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionFelix Girke and Christian MeyerPART I: INTERSUBJECTIVITYChapter 1. The Dance of Rhetoric: Dialogic Selves and Spontaneously Responsive ExpressionsJohn ShotterChapter 2. Co-opting Intersubjectivity: Dialogic Rhetoric of the SelfJohn W. DuBoisChapter 3. Echo Chambers and Rhetoric. Sketch of a Model of Resonance TheoryPierre MarandaChapter 4. Discourse beyond Language: Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and NatureDonal Carbaugh and David Boromisza-HabashiChapter 5. The Spellbinding Aura of Culture. Tracing its Anthropological DiscoveryBernhard StreckChapter 6. Tenor in CultureIvo StreckerPART II: EMERGENCEChapter 7. Attending the Vernacular. A Plea for an Ethnographical RhetoricGerard A. HauserChapter 8. Enhoused Speech: The Rhetoric of Foi TerritorialityJames F. WeinerChapter 9. Transcultural Rhetoric and CyberspaceFilipp SapienzaChapter 10. Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation Versus Conversion in Early-Modern GoaAlexander HennChapter 11. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony. An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern EthiopiaFelix Girke and Alula PankhurstPART III: AGENCYChapter 12. In Defense of the Orator. A Classicist Outlook on Rhetoric CultureFranz-Hubert RoblingChapter 13. Rhetoric, Anti-Structure, and the Social Formation of AuthorshipJames Thomas ZebroskiChapter 14. Attention & Rhetoric: Prolepsis and the Problem of MeaningTodd OakleyChapter 15. Emergence, Agency and the Middle Ground of Culture: A Meditation on MediationStephen A. TylerNotes on ContributorsIndex