Recently added articles from Rhetoric Society Quarterly:
Editor's Note
Jan 01, 2008; Miller, Carolyn R ... With this issue I begin a four-year term as editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. I'm honored that the Rhetoric Society of America has entrusted me with its official scholarly publication, a journal that addresses scholars across the disciplines and engages the issues they find important and ...
Negation and the Contradictory Technics of Rhetoric
Jan 01, 2008; Pender, Kelly ... Responding to critiques of instrumental approaches to rhetoric and writing, this article explains why such approaches do not necessarily suppress the materiality of language or inhibit the writer's ability to experience that materiality. Relying on Samuel Weber's re-translation of Heidegger's ...
Speaking on Behalf of Others: Rhetorical Agency and Epideictic Functions in Official Apologies
Jan 01, 2008; Villadsen, Lisa Storm ... The official apology is a discursive phenomenon with complex, rhetorical significance and must be distinguished from the apologia. The main difference is that the official apology entails an element of regret and acknowledgement of wrongdoing that makes it an even more delicate rhetorical matter ...
Unclenching the Fist: Embodying Rhetoric and Giving Objects Their Due
Jan 01, 2008; Marback, Richard ... The vandalizing of Monument to Joe Louis initiated efforts in the media to explain both the meaning of the vandalism and of the monument itself. This article engages those efforts to find an explanation linking act to object. Proceeding through the joining of acts, objects, and words, this ...
Kenneth Burke's Constabulary Rhetoric: Sociorhetorical Critique in Attitudes Toward History
Jan 01, 2008; Jack, Jordynn ... Scholars have shown that Kenneth Burke's research on drug addiction at the Bureau of Social Hygiene shaped his rhetorical theory in Permanence and Change, but less attention has been paid to another facet of this research, criminology, and its influence on Attitudes Toward History. In Attitudes, ...
Size Matters: Polytoning Rhetoric's Perverse Apocalypse
Jan 01, 2008; Gunn, Joshua ... Drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis and deconstruction, this article argues that the fixation of some scholars on the status, size, and identity of rhetorical studies is symptomatic of an apocalyptic perversion. An attention to the apocalyptic tone of recent discussions about "Big ...
Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
Jan 01, 2008; Willard, Barbara E ... Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice, by Phaedra Pezzullo. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. xiii + 265 pp. The subject of Phaedra Pezzullo's book, Toxic Tourism, concerns the use of the toxic tour as a performative re-definition of tours ...
Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric
Jan 01, 2008; You, Xiaoye ... Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric by LuMing Mao. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. xi+ 177 pp. When I first agreed to review this book, I was quite nervous. I thought that the book dealt with the rhetoric of Chinese Americans, a community ...
Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science
Jan 01, 2008; Beard, David ... Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science by Daniel Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. x+ 194 pp. Heidegger and Rhetoric edited by Daniel Gross and Ansgar Kemmann. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. v+ 195 pp. Daniel Gross's Secret History of ...