Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2109400
Sarah Riddick
Abstract This article examines how whistleblowing evolves as a rhetorical genre alongside emergent media. By analyzing three events involving student disclosures on social media, this article argues that students’ social media communication can qualify as whistleblowing, just as whistleblowing can qualify as rhetoric. Notably, whistleblowing’s current conventions, which are heavily based in business and organization studies, suggest otherwise. This article introduces a concept called kinderuption to facilitate rhetorical analyses of whistleblowing. Approaching whistleblowing events as kinderuptions invites critical attention to audience engagement and influence, and a reconsideration of underlying themes like intention, harm, and care.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2109402
G. Gordon, Ben Wetherbee
Abstract Partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-era face-masking has reshuffled traditional stasis hierarchy, allowing the middle stases of definition and quality, which emphasize epideictic motives of cultural affirmation, to supersede conjectural questions of medical efficacy. Viral images positioning masks as metonymic approximations of “authoritarianicity” and government overreach illustrate how right-wing masking rhetoric circumvents scientific concerns, instead rooting discourse in questions of cultural essence. Science communicators, in response, must embrace the inherently tropological and epideictic dimensions of the mask and work to recode the symbol as a metonym for citizenship and personal responsibility.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2109538
Lyndsey Lepovitz
women (and some men) spoke more openly about the sexism, sexual harassment, and even sexual abuse they had experienced working with the male clergy of their churches. As Martin puts it, “the story that began to emerge from women in conservative American evangelicalism in the aftermath of the Access Hollywood tape acknowledged new plotlines” (152). Because some evangelical women began to openly acknowledge the sexism and abuse within the religious institution, rewriting some of the institution’s narratives, evangelical stories about other typically progressive issues, for example, immigration and separating families at the border, also shifted. Narrative is key to the way in which the rhetoric of active passivism “allows for action, but denies agency,” letting evangelical Protestantism, as Martin describes it, “have it both ways” (169-70). Martin admits she finds this feature of the discourse “profoundly confusing,” yet her argument ultimately suggests that the storylines involved in the rhetoric are what enable such a logical contradiction to exist and even “make sense” (169). While narrative as rhetoric is often treated as a foregone conclusion in rhetorical theory, Decoding the Digital Church reveals why Walter Fisher’s notion of narrative fidelity remains instructive for understanding how audiences can hold conflicting belief systems with little to no perceived material conflict in their daily lives. Fisher says stories disguise logical contradiction and fidelity is about “‘truth qualities,’” not logical consistency, so narratives such as these allow concern for logical consistency to be sidestepped altogether (“The Narrative Paradigm: An Elaboration.” Communication Monographs, vol. 52, no. 4, 1985, pp. 349-50). Thus, Martin’s book suggests that the story of narrative as rhetoric may have only just begun.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2111944
E. Johnson
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2109399
Brigitte Mussack
Abstract This article provides a framework for analyzing metaphor as epideictic rhetoric, accounting for the persistence of key disciplinary metaphors. It examines the metaphor of voice across distinct theoretical conversations as an example of epideictic metaphor. Voice’s epideictic function allows it to reconceptualize the shared value of power as it celebrates this value by stitching and unstitching it to various worldviews and values. An epideictic framework allows rhetoric scholars to uncover and trouble values celebrated by a discourse community’s shared metaphors while challenging values as unquestionable or mutually exclusive. Further, framing metaphors as epideictic celebrates linguistic and conceptual dissonance.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-24DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2109536
Sheri Rysdam
When I first read the call for proposals for the October 2015 Tenth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference on “Women’s Ways of Making” in Tempe, Arizona, I took the call literally and hoped there would be talk of arts, quilts, textiles, and texts that seemed somehow feminine. I wanted this to be about projects like The REDress Project, which responds to the more than 1,000 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada (Black, Jaime. The REDress Project. 2020, jaimeblackartist.com/exhibitions). In other words, women making community, making change, and making meaning through handmade arts and artifacts. I read the call:
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Pub Date : 2022-07-13eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2077035
Richard Vytniorgu
This article argues for the importance of British food writer Elizabeth David (1913-1992) in questioning the centrality of power in feminist rhetorical studies and thereby furthering our capacity to understand the diversity of conservative women and their rhetorical projects. The article analyzes David's pathos in her landmark volume of gastronomical essays, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (1986), and shows how this rhetoric develops a conservative "political culture" which privileges human motivations within food cultures that move beyond the negotiation of power.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2073779
Cherice Escobar Jones
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2077034
Brita M. Thielen
Abstract This article participates in contemporary conversations about ethos by extending conceptions of ethos as dwelling places” or ecologies” to ethos as hospitality. Such extension involves attending to how three recent decolonial cookbook authors construct stable textual identities and ethos using rhetorics of healing, constitutive rhetoric, and utopian rhetoric. The cookbooks under analysis–Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry (2014), Decolonize Your Diet by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel (2015), and The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman (2017)–offer readers knowledge of African American, Mesoamerican, and Native American ancestral foodways and encourage culturally-affiliated readers to embrace these foodways in order to reclaim their communities' physical and spiritual health. The authors demonstrate a complex engagement with ethos as they reconstitute the cultural identity of their primary audiences both literally, through the consumption of food as an act rooted in the body, and figuratively, through the ways food connects us to others.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2022.2077036
John Purfield
Abstract The climate change crisis is a matter of increasing concern to rhetoric and composition. Some scholars in the discipline, specifically on the new materialist turn, have engaged and accounted for the damage through methodologies of ontological entanglement and relationality. The potential of ontological accounts to facilitate global activism faces the obstacle of scalar derangement. By acting as Foucauldian specific intellectuals, rhetoric and composition scholars may employ new materialist ontological projects to bridge the gap between local accounts of climatological damage and a global, pluralist assemblage of climate activists.
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