The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture [Hardcover]

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 creation, as will-driven social processes are shaped by cognitive dispositions and shape them in turn. Drawing on expertise in a variety of disciplines and regions, the contributors critically engage? dialogical approaches in their emphasis on how a view from rhetoric? changes our perception of people's intersubjective and conjoint creation of culture.

Felix Girkeis Post-Doctoral Researcher and Research Coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ZIRS) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He has published on cultural contact, exchange relations, predicaments of decision making, and war and peace in southwestern Ethiopia.

List of Figures
Preface

Introduction
Felix GirkeandChristian Meyer

PART I: INTERSUBJECTIVITY

Chapter 1.The Dance of Rhetoric: Dialogic Selves and Spontaneously Responsive Expressions
John Shotter

Chapter 2.Co-opting Intersubjectivity: Dialogic Rhetoric of the Self
John W. DuBois

Chapter 3.Echo Chambers and Rhetoric. Sketch of a Model of Resonance Theory
Pierre Maranda

Chapter 4.Discourse beyond Language: Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and Nature
Donal CarbaughandDavid Boromil“l