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The rhetorical emergence of culture / edited by Christian Meyer and Felix Girke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 4.
- Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Semiotic models.
- Culture.
- Communication and culture.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 creat
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Intersubjectivity
- pt. 2. Emergence
- pt. 3. Agency.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857451132
- 0857451138
- OCLC:
- 733040227
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