The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture
Author： Meyer Christian;Girke Felix;
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780857451132
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780857451125
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： null 社会学,社会科学理论与方法论,语言学LinguisticsSocial Science Theory and MethodologySociology
Language： ENG
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Description
"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.
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