Crossing borders, drawing boundaries : the rhetoric of lines across America / edited by Barbara Couture, Patti Wojahn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couture, Barbara, editor.

Wojahn, Patti, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in politics--United States.

Communication in politics.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

United States.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"A timely rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. To see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Democratic discourse and lines across America / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn

Metonymic borders and our sense of nation / Victor Villanueva

Continuity and contact in a cosmopolitan world : code-switching and its effects on community identity / Christopher Schroeder

Humor's role in political discourse : examining border patrol in "Colbert nation" / Jonathan P. Rossing

Employing ethos to cross the borders of difference: teaching civil discourse / Karen P. Peirce

Crossing linguistic borders in the classroom : moving beyond English-only to tap rich linguistic resources / Anita C. Hernández, José A. Montelongo, and Roberta J. Herter

Traversing rhetorical borders of spirituality in an academic setting / Susan A. Schiller

Difference as rhetorical stance : developing meaningful interactions and identification across racial and ethnic lines / Monica Torres and Kathryn Valentine

"I am the 99 percent" : identification and division in the rhetorics of the Occupy Wall Street protests / Randolph Cauthen

American rhetorics of disappearance : translocal feminist problem-solving rhetorics / Tricia C. Serviss

"A melting pot that's constantly being stirred" : rhetorics of race and tolerance at a regional museum / Cori Brewster

De pie sobre la valla y mirando por la ventana : border realities of the immigrant experience / Vanessa Cozza

Fostering inclusive dialogue in emergent university-community partnerships : setting the stage for intercultural inquiry / Elenore Long, Jennifer Clifton, Andrea Alden, and Judy Holiday

Rhetorical education at the city's edge : the challenge of public rhetoric in suburban America / Robert Brooke

In sum and review : the rhetoric of lines across us / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607324027

1607324024

OCLC:

910334499