Rhetorics of Names and Naming [Hardcover]

This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.

Introduction: Toward a Rhetorical Onomastics Star Medzerian Vanguri  SECTION 1: Performing Identity  1 Composing Place, Composing Las Vegas Cydney Alexis, Scot Barnett, and Eric Leake  2 From Big Time to Turd Blossom : George W. Bush and the Rhetoric of the Political Sobriquet Jason Thompson  3 Nominal Blackness Lisa Woolfork  4 Mononymous Dickens: The Named and Unnamed in Household Words Christine DeVinne  SECTION 2: Reinforcing Hegemony  5 Understanding the Life Narratives of Immigrants through Naming Practices Angela Clark-Oates, Duane Roen, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson  6 Dont Say Drone : Hits and Misses in a Rhetorical Project of Naming Robin Shoaps and Sarah Stanley  7 Crimean (Tatar): Resisting a Deportation of Identity  Christian Berry  8 The Female Frankenstein: Naming Practices Constructing What It Means to Be a Woman Jessica Rose Corey  SECTION 3: Creating Public Memory  9 Social Movement Names and Global Frames Tim Jensen  10 Eponymous Elixirs: Mrs. Pinkham, Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicines, and the Rhetoric of Naming Elizabeth Lowry  11 The Genome, the Meme, and the Teme Go off the Map: Observing Naming, Metapholói