Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185016
Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Strange’: When Presidents Apologize for Genocide” because, in so many cases, the apology appears to be merely an image management ploy rather than an authentic gesture of remorse. Thoughtful skepticism and cautions like the above wind through The Rhetoric of Official Apologies, working through varying perspectives and approaches, and serving as tributaries for future theorizations of what official responses to moral wrongs can possibly be authentic, sufficient, and mindful of past and present. I’m hopeful that forthcoming rhetorical criticism of public and official apologies will take particular note of the preceding rhetoric that tips the scales of kairos and exigence to compel an official statement. Accusations, calls for apology, and other advocacy by victims and witnesses create a unique lens through which to observe and assess official apologies. Likewise, both official and unofficial responses by the recipient(s) ought to be considered in conjunction with official apology. These reactions inform future rhetorical action and criticism as they contribute to the public record and shine a light on the impact of apology rather than the speaker’s ostensible intent. Taken together, these essays and the bookending commentaries by both editors invite the reader to consider historical events and their more recent apologies as heuristics for careful and critical reflection of how citizens can work toward more just, humane, and inclusive futures in their corporations, communities, and nations. Editors Villadsen and Edwards take an optimistic approach: “Official apologies have the potential to serve as lessons on proper civic interaction and reflections on the values that undergird a community and how they are honored, and not” (223–24). Thoughtful inquiry into apologies and other rhetorical responses to wrongdoing can spur public discourse about national identities, intersubjectivities, vulnerability, accountability, self-determination, and more as we grapple with both historical and present-day wrongs perpetrated by those and to those who might be a lot like us.
{"title":"Rhetorical Crossover: The Black Presence in White Culture","authors":"Raven Maragh-Lloyd","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2023.2185016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2185016","url":null,"abstract":"Strange’: When Presidents Apologize for Genocide” because, in so many cases, the apology appears to be merely an image management ploy rather than an authentic gesture of remorse. Thoughtful skepticism and cautions like the above wind through The Rhetoric of Official Apologies, working through varying perspectives and approaches, and serving as tributaries for future theorizations of what official responses to moral wrongs can possibly be authentic, sufficient, and mindful of past and present. I’m hopeful that forthcoming rhetorical criticism of public and official apologies will take particular note of the preceding rhetoric that tips the scales of kairos and exigence to compel an official statement. Accusations, calls for apology, and other advocacy by victims and witnesses create a unique lens through which to observe and assess official apologies. Likewise, both official and unofficial responses by the recipient(s) ought to be considered in conjunction with official apology. These reactions inform future rhetorical action and criticism as they contribute to the public record and shine a light on the impact of apology rather than the speaker’s ostensible intent. Taken together, these essays and the bookending commentaries by both editors invite the reader to consider historical events and their more recent apologies as heuristics for careful and critical reflection of how citizens can work toward more just, humane, and inclusive futures in their corporations, communities, and nations. Editors Villadsen and Edwards take an optimistic approach: “Official apologies have the potential to serve as lessons on proper civic interaction and reflections on the values that undergird a community and how they are honored, and not” (223–24). Thoughtful inquiry into apologies and other rhetorical responses to wrongdoing can spur public discourse about national identities, intersubjectivities, vulnerability, accountability, self-determination, and more as we grapple with both historical and present-day wrongs perpetrated by those and to those who might be a lot like us.","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185015
Autumn R. Boyer
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185012
Isaac West
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095421
J. Paudel
ABSTRACT The Bhagavad Gita—an acclaimed and venerated ancient sacred religious and philosophical text integral to the Hindu faith—shows several rhetorical strategies. To figure out these strategies, in this essay I analyze the Gita using the Nyayasutras method—a systematic guide to rhetorical analysis of Hindu philosophy. Rhetorical scrutiny is applied to the dialog between two main characters of this sacred text: Bhagavan Krishna and Arjuna. I first introduce the Gita and its significance for rhetorical scholarship. In what follows, I present briefly the Nyayasutra method and discuss three types of rhetorical strategies found in the text: Astikya/bhava (ontological) strategy, jnapaka (revelatory) strategy, and tattva/nyaya (axiological) strategy. I also discuss very briefly some counter-arguments that are offered in the rhetoric of the Gita. My rhetorical analysis contributes to the rich ongoing academic discussion of Hindu rhetorical traditions and deepens existing English-medium scholarly discussion about rhetorical strategies employed in the text.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129756
W. Ordeman
ABSTRACT The Spanish flu’s efficacy of spreading across El Paso was in part due to neoliberal governments and racially prejudiced free-market economies exploiting a natural ecosystem to marginalize a Latinx community. This study identifies the tragic consequences these actions brought about for an entire city of both marginalized and privileged. This work argues for a new paradigm of rhetorical agency that accounts for interactions between rhetorical ecologies happening over time. This work demonstrates this paradigm through government policies, newspaper articles, press releases, and ecological surveys of El Paso, Texas, beginning with the early nineteenth century through the first years of the Spanish flu (1918–20). Through the lens of rhetorical methods concerning agency distribution and radical interactionality, we see how one neighborhood played a vital role in the epidemic’s spread throughout the city.
{"title":"Histories of Radical Interactionality: Rivers, Disease, Borders, and Laundry","authors":"W. Ordeman","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2022.2129756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2022.2129756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Spanish flu’s efficacy of spreading across El Paso was in part due to neoliberal governments and racially prejudiced free-market economies exploiting a natural ecosystem to marginalize a Latinx community. This study identifies the tragic consequences these actions brought about for an entire city of both marginalized and privileged. This work argues for a new paradigm of rhetorical agency that accounts for interactions between rhetorical ecologies happening over time. This work demonstrates this paradigm through government policies, newspaper articles, press releases, and ecological surveys of El Paso, Texas, beginning with the early nineteenth century through the first years of the Spanish flu (1918–20). Through the lens of rhetorical methods concerning agency distribution and radical interactionality, we see how one neighborhood played a vital role in the epidemic’s spread throughout the city.","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43406229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095422
J. Hitchcock
ABSTRACT This essay applies rhetorical framing analysis to vernacular student-created discourse promoting the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian rights. The results of this study suggest that pro-BDS student activist-rhetors typically frame the BDS movement as a nonviolent movement to achieve Palestinian rights and hold Israel accountable for an ongoing system of oppression, discrimination, settler colonialism, and apartheid against Palestinians. This framing relies on the values of justice, freedom, equality, and joint struggle—values that strongly overlap with social and racial justice discourses focusing on intersectionality and justice for marginalized and oppressed peoples. In response to the rhetorical ecology for pro-BDS discourse, including counterframing by Israel advocates and the doxa that BDS is antisemitic, pro-BDS activist-rhetors regularly denounce antisemitism, emphasize Jewish support for the BDS movement, and draw comparisons to other struggles for justice and liberation.
{"title":"Framing Palestinian Rights: A Rhetorical Frame Analysis of Vernacular Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement Discourse","authors":"J. Hitchcock","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2022.2095422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2022.2095422","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay applies rhetorical framing analysis to vernacular student-created discourse promoting the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement and Palestinian rights. The results of this study suggest that pro-BDS student activist-rhetors typically frame the BDS movement as a nonviolent movement to achieve Palestinian rights and hold Israel accountable for an ongoing system of oppression, discrimination, settler colonialism, and apartheid against Palestinians. This framing relies on the values of justice, freedom, equality, and joint struggle—values that strongly overlap with social and racial justice discourses focusing on intersectionality and justice for marginalized and oppressed peoples. In response to the rhetorical ecology for pro-BDS discourse, including counterframing by Israel advocates and the doxa that BDS is antisemitic, pro-BDS activist-rhetors regularly denounce antisemitism, emphasize Jewish support for the BDS movement, and draw comparisons to other struggles for justice and liberation.","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43788411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2129758
Emily Winderman, B. Knutson
ABSTRACT This essay centers the legal and coalitional strategies of Black feminist Civil Rights attorney Florynce Kennedy in pre-Roe v. Wade abortion rights advocacy. Examining the depositional records of the 1969 case Abramowitz v. Lefkowitz and its subsequent distillation into the 1971 book Abortion Rap, we demonstrate how Kennedy’s rhetorical tactics enabled white women’s reproductive experiences to be intelligible—but centered—as expertise in the legal domain. Kennedy’s lines of questioning enabled feelings about unwanted pregnancies to become intelligible as expertise, challenging the authority of established experts. Kennedy impatiently leveraged her expert knowledge of the legal system to manage the state’s objections that threatened the well-being of witnesses and integrity of the case. While Abortion Rap appealed to the intersections of Black women’s reproductive concerns, it also hindered the possibility for coalitional trust to be built between legal experts and Black Power activists around abortion advocacy.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095425
T. Dionne, J. Hatfield, Gabrielle Willingham
ABSTRACT After #BlackLivesMatter protests in summer 2020, many leaders in the US South reevaluated monuments dedicated to the confederate and segregation eras. Black affiliates of the University of Arkansas used the Twitter hashtag #BlackatUARK to demand the removal of memorials commemorating a segregationist senator and share their experiences of anti-Black racism on campus. We argue that #BlackatUARK provides a counterpublic memorial of campus life that opposes and transforms dominant public memories, geographies, and subjectivities. Our analysis of the hashtag expands the conceptual boundaries of the kairos/metanoia partnership to show how digital counterpublic memories gain momentum and produce tangible rhetorical effects across both digital and nondigital contexts. During its circulation, the hashtag opens and sustains a kairotic moment fueled by the exigent flow of memories of anti-Black racism on campus. Simultaneously, the hashtag ignites a metanoic moment whereby allies mobilize their regret about a shameful past to plan a more just future.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185011
Kristin L. Arola
{"title":"Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logics of Decolonization","authors":"Kristin L. Arola","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2023.2185011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2185011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48849711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2022.2095423
E. Szymanski
ABSTRACT Multispecies rhetoric functions as an umbrella for diverse approaches to more-than-human communications that invoke distinct varieties of relations among human and other creatures. Amid that diversity, rhetorical engagements in which all creatures “speak” with others in mutual, iterative exchange can become lost. My argument is, first, that this particular variety of multispecies conversation is rare in discussions of multispecies rhetoric because rhetorical engagement “with” other creatures is often underspecified, and because it is incompatible with Aristotelian foundations that still often underpin rhetorical inquiry; and second, that it should be cultivated so that humans can invite other creatures to be more interesting than the anthropoexceptionalist lens may suggest, such that we can accomplish more together. A multispecies rhetoric wherein humans speak with other creatures, not only speaking for, about, or around them, requires drawing a distinction between capacities to affect/be affected and assumptions about any creature’s internal state of mind.
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