The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoricA" - 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

List of Figures Preface Introduction Felix Girke and Christian 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 Carbaugh and David Boromisza-Habashi Chapter 5. The Spellbinding Aura of Culture. Tracing its Anthropological Discovery Bernhard Streck Chapter 6. Tenor in Culture Ivo Strecker PART II: EMERGENCE Chapter 7. Attending the Vernacular. A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric Gerard A. Hauser Chapter 8. Enhoused Speech: The Rhetoric of Foi Territoriality James F. Weiner Chapter 9. Transcultural Rhetoric and Cyberspace Filipp Sapienza Chapter 10. Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation Versus Conversion in Early-Modern Goa Alexander Henn Chapter 11. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony. An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern Ethiopia Felix Girke and Alula Pankhurst PART III: AGENCY Chapter 12. In Defense of the Orator. A Classicist Outlook on Rhetoric Culture Franz-Hubert Robling Chapter 13. Rhetoric, Anti-Structure, and the Social Formation of Authorship James Thomas Zebroski Chapter 14. Attention & Rhetoric: Prolepsis and the Problem of Meaning Todd Oakley Chapter 15. Emergence, Agency and the Middle Ground of Culture: A Meditation on Mediation Stephen A. Tyler Notes on Contributors Index