scholarly journals Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Agency

scholarly journals Kairos and actio – a rhetorical approach to timing

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Marie Gelang
Keyword(s):  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do The Right Thing ◽  
Empirical Material

This article explores timing, kairos, in human interaction by analyzing nonverbal communication. The skill of timing, being able to do “the right thing at the right time,” is important for rhetorical agency. What are the silent processes in human interaction, and how do they influence the possibility for a kairotic moment to occur? Empirical material consisting of theater rehearsals has been analyzed. The findings show that the actio qualities: tempo and energy, as well as phronesis, are important factors for the appearance of a kairotic moment.

scholarly journals A Dialogue on the Constructions of GLBT and Queer Ethos: “I Belong to a Culture That Includes …”

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Jane Hoogestraat ◽  
Hillery Glasby
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Normal Heart ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Yom Kippur ◽  
A Site

Invoking a dialogue between two scholars, authors Jane Hoogestraat and Hillery Glasby discuss the exigence for, construction of, and differentiation between LGBT and queer ethos. Drawing from Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and the construction of a gay identity, the text explores connections between queer theory, LGBT(Q) ethos, and queer futurity, ultimately arguing for a more nuanced and critical understanding of the undecidability and performativity of LGBT and queer ethos. In framing LGBT and queer ethos as being at the same time a self and socially constructed and mediated—legitimate and illegitimate—ethos can be understood not only as a site for rhetorical agency, but also as an orientation and a form of activism. Finally, the text offers a case study of Adrienne Rich’s “Yom Kippur,” which is a poem that offers a queer (and) Jewish perspective on identity—from an individual and community level—exhibiting both an LGBT and queer ethos.

Rhetoric and Environment

2015 ◽  
pp. 732-744
Author(s):  
Andrew McMurry
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Environmental Conditioning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Rhetorical Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Actual Environment

This chapter explores the vexing relationship between rhetorical studies and the environmental problematic. On one hand, rhetorical analyses of environmental exigencies and debates are salutary, fostering the bases for reconciliations of competing positions about the value of the natural world. On the other hand, rhetoric fails to account for the epistemological consequences of its own anthropocentrism. The latter obliges rhetoric to frame all biophysical urgencies into matters of human (mis)communication. Rhetoric, in effect, leaves the actual environment outside of its considerations, recasting environmental emergencies as rhetorical ones. The article argues for a thoroughgoing rhetorical critique of anthropocentrism, a more capacious notion of nonhuman rhetorical agency, and a theorization of the environmental conditioning of all rhetorical situations.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Narratives of Black Entrepreneurs

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha N. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Black Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Inquiry Approach ◽  
Communicative Practice ◽  
Black Entrepreneurs ◽  
Cultural Empowerment ◽  
Black Businesses

Using cultural empowerment as a conceptual framework, this study emphasizes the interrelated role of culture, rhetorical agency, and empowerment in discursive analysis and communicative practice. Twelve black business owners were interviewed using a narrative inquiry approach. Thematic analysis revealed that these entrepreneurs enacted rhetorical agency in ways that work within oppressive systems and resisted damaging dominate discourses about black businesses. By highlighting the rhetorical narratives of black entrepreneurs, this study also addresses the need for a more culturally sensitive approach in business, professional, and organizational communication.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Agency in the Face of Uncertainty

Poroi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lora Arduser ◽  
Lucia Dura ◽  
Jennifer Malkowski
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
The Face
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