scholarly journals "Don't put an 'or' where God puts an 'and'": constitutive rhetoric in queer Appalachia.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Boling
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Rhetoric

Asserting the Ineffable: Rhetorical Appropriation of ‘Poetic’ and the Contemporary Poetry Text

CounterText ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-161
Author(s):  
Ming-Qian Ma
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Constitutive Rhetoric ◽  
Rhetorical Situation ◽  
Poetry And Poetics ◽  
Information Transformation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Identity Formations

An elusive, trace-like entity, ‘poetic’ presents itself in the form of an intangible and yet indispensable relation, or relatedness, in the overall dynamics of information transformation. Paradoxical in nature and function, its ineffability forms the very condition of expressivity in poetry and poetics. ‘Poetic’, as such, also gains popularity and practicality in popular culture at large where and when it becomes articulated, tailored pragmatically to the specificities of any given activity. As an epochal phenomenon, this pragmatic rendition of ‘poetic’ takes the more pronounced form of rhetoric, which appropriates ‘poetic’, and which is resorted to by the contending smaller narratives in the postmodern world as their means for their respective identity formations and legitimations. In the context of the contemporary poetry scene, this rhetorical appropriation of ‘poetic’ manifests itself eloquently in the three areas of rhetorical situation, constitutive rhetoric, and rhetorical styles, which reveal the mechanisms of a soft interpellation that grants the contemporary poets their identity and legitimacy through their own performative confirmation.

Identification by Antithesis:The Turner Diariesas Constitutive Rhetoric

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Goehring ◽  
George N. Dionisopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Rhetoric

Regularities of diversity discourse: Address, categorization, and invitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Juul Christiansen ◽  
Sine Nørholm Just
Keyword(s):  
Diversity Management ◽  
Constitutive Rhetoric ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Diversity Discourse

AbstractManagerial discourses on diversity invoke goals of inclusion and emancipation of suppressed individuals and groups as well as objectives of creating benefits for organizations and society. Partially due to this two-fold emphasis, diversity discourses may, however, be as restricting as they are liberating to the subjects of which they speak. In this article we suggest that utterances pertaining to diversity discourse should be understood as constitutive rhetoric marked by three discursive regularities: address, categorization, and invitation. These regularities underlie and restrain the multiple discursive practices of the developing field of diversity management, and as researchers and practitioners alike continue to explore and enhance this field it is important to understand – and seek to broaden – its conditions of possibility. Emphasizing the theoretical argument about discursive regularities and their articulation, we provide an illustrative example of the how different discursive practices may reproduce common limitations by exploring contributions to Danish diversity discourse.

‘We demand justice. We just getting started’: the constitutive rhetoric of 1Hood Media's hip-hop activism

Popular Music ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Constitutive Rhetoric ◽  
Visual Features ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Institutional Forces

AbstractThe hip-hop activism of Pittsburgh's 1Hood Media has been a key element of the success of several contemporary social justice campaigns, such as the 2010 Justice For Jordan Miles police brutality case. After offering some background on 1Hood Media and a discussion of constitutive rhetoric, this study offers a close reading of 1Hood's rhetorical appeal, focusing on the ways in which the audience is constituted as both collective and individual subjects whose participation in the narrative is essential to its closure. 1Hood Media's texts focus on a diverse range of victims of injustice who suffer at the hands of police brutality and murder, and other forms of systemic oppression. The villains in these narratives are institutional forces, such as racist police forces, or corrupt Wall Street banks. By focusing on music, lyrical and visual features of 1Hood's cultural products, this study contributes to studies of popular music, hip-hop, rhetoric and cultural politics.

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