Text + Field: Innovations in Rhetorical Method

Published by Penn State University Press 2016

Text + Field

Innovations in Rhetorical Method

Edited by: Sara L. McKinnon , Robert Asen , Karma R. Chávez and Robert Glenn Howard

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271078120

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About this book

Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out into the field, where rhetoric is produced, enacted, and consumed.

These field-based practices involve observation, ethnographic interviews, and performance. They are not intended to displace text-based approaches; rather, they expand the idea of method by helping rhetorical scholars arrive at new and complementary answers to long-standing disciplinary questions about text, context, audience, judgment, and ethics.

The first volume in rhetoric and communication to directly address the relevance, processes, and implications of using field methods to augment traditional scholarship, Text + Field provides a framework for adapting these new tools to traditional rhetorical inquiry.

Aside from the editors, the contributors are Roberta Chevrette, Kathleen M. de Onís, Danielle Endres, Joshua P. Ewalt, Alina Haliliuc, Aaron Hess, Jamie Landau, Michael Middleton, Tiara R. Na’puti, Jessy J. Ohl, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Damien Smith Pfister, Samantha Senda-Cook, Lisa Silvestri, and Valerie Thatcher.

Author / Editor information

McKinnon Sara L. :

Sara L. McKinnon is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Asen Robert :

Robert Asen is Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Chávez Karma R. :

Karma R. Chávez is Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Howard Robert Glenn :

Robert Glenn Howard is Professor of Communication Arts and the chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Reviews

“Text + Field productively emphasizes the praxis of methodology, augmenting and amplifying the innovative possibilities available to students and scholars researching the rhetoric of everyday life. The collection advocates methods that are ethically responsive as well as intellectually insightful, looking to embodied approaches such as interviewing, critical ethnography, participant-observation, and personal narrative.”
—Jeffrey Bennett, Vanderbilt University

“Reinforces an interdisciplinary, synergistic approach to the field that allows critical ethnographic research and gives greater attention to bodies, nonhuman elements, and everyday technologies to deeply inform rhetorical theory. This book is an essential read for courses in ethnography as well as a useful supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in rhetoric.”
—K. L. Majocha, Choice

“This exceptional editorial collective, themselves ethnographic rhetorical critics, here assemble gifted critical travelers who venture from Omaha to Guåhan to challenge and entice us to reconsider method, context, textuality, embodiment, judgment, and ethics by means of innovative movement in rhetorical research. This volume will inspire all those who dream of new critical destinations.”
—Charles E. Morris III, coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking

“It should be required reading for all of us working at the nexus of politics, rhetoric, and ethics.”
—Heather Ashley Hayes, Rhetoric & Public Affairs

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Articulating Text and Field in the Nodes of Rhetorical Scholarship Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez and Robert Glenn Howard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Interrogating the “Field” Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael K. Middleton and Danielle Endres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
2 Rhetorical Field Methods in the Tradition of Imitatio Joshua P. Ewalt, Jessy J. Ohl and Damien Smith Pfister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 From Guåhan and Back: Navigating a “Both/Neither” Analytic for Rhetorical Field Methods Tiara R. Na’puti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4 Feeling Rhetorical Critics: Another Affective- Emotional Field Method for Rhetorical Studies Jamie Landau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5 Embodied Judgment: A Call for a Phronetic Orientation in Rhetorical Ethnography Aaron Hess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
6 “Pa’ que tú lo sepas”: Experiences with Co- presence in Puerto Rico Kathleen M. de Onís Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7 It’s Like a Prairie Fire! Rhetorics of Trust and Reciprocity in the Texas Coal Plant Opposition Movement Valerie Thatcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
8 Being, Evoking, and Reflecting from the Field: A Case for Critical Ethnography in Audience- Centered Rhetorical Criticism Alina Haliliuc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9 Holographic Rhetoric: De/Colonizing Public Memory at Pueblo Grande Roberta Chevrette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
10 Context Drives Method: Studying Social Media Use in a War Zone Lisa Silvestri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Afterword: Decentralizing and Regenerating the Field Phaedra C. Pezzullo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Images: 6
- Other: 6 illustrations
Keywords: McKinnon; Asen; Chávez; Howard; rhetoric; ”method”; ”field-based practices”; ”rhetorical inquiry”; ”scholarship”

eBook

Published: June 1, 2016
ISBN: 9780271078120