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- Title
Inventing local rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis.
- Authors
PIETRUCCI, PAMELA
- Abstract
This essay offers a pluralized conception of local rhetorics. The local has traditionally been conceived as the backdrop or flat surface where rhetoric/discourse is situated, or at best as a contextual dimension of rhetorical situations. The history of usage of this term -- evoking a fix and inert connotation that often indicates a bounded locality or site -- has contributed to its neglect as a tool for rhetorical theory, while its actual use in rhetorical praxis has proliferated in conjunction to the turn to field and site-based methodologies and practices. By drawing on fieldwork about the rhetoricity of a post-disaster locality to ground my theoretical reflections, here I offer a conceptualization of local rhetorics via multiple ontologies and ecological theories. Finally, throughout the essay, I suggest a rhetorical- topographic approach as a methodological orientation to integrate existing theoretical and methodological pathways for exploring the multiple rhetoricity of the local.
- Subjects
PRAXIS (Process); RHETORICAL theory; RHETORIC
- Publication
Res Rhetorica, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 4, p3
- ISSN
2392-3113
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29107/rr2022.4.1