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Lu, Xing. “Studies and Development of Comparative Rhetoric in the U.S. A.: Chinese and Western Rhetoric in Focus”
In this article, Xing Lu describes the evolution of comparative rhetoric in rhetorical studies between Chinese rhetoric and Western rhetoric as has having occurred in four stages: deficiency stage, recognition/emergence stage, the native/emic stage, and the appreciation/appropriation stage. According to … Continue reading
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Wang, Bo. “A Survey of Research in Asian Rhetoric”
In order to survey the existing state of research in Asian rhetorics, in this article, Bo Wang interviews top scholars in Asian rhetorics, who have recently begun to study Asian rhetorics on their own terms and in their own … Continue reading
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Mao, LuMing “Reflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative Rhetoric”
Mao’s Reflective Encounter’s begins with three challenges that comparative rhetoric as defined by Kennedy faces: temptation of resorting to the defiency mode, identifying “rhetorical universals” across cultures and imposing principles from Western classical rhetoric onto other cultural rhetorical practices. Mao … Continue reading
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Culture in Ancient India and china by Robert Oliver—Chapter 1: Culture and Rhetoric
In Chapter 1 of Communication and Culture in Ancient India and china, Robert Oliver attempts to explain the manner in which these cultures talked–”how they addressed one another, under what circumstances, on what topics, in what varied styles, with what … Continue reading
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George Kennedy “Comparative Rhetoric”
In Comparative Rhetoric, George Kennedy offers an evolutionary model of rhetoric, beginning with animals, moving in chronological time to “non-literate” cultures, or “societies without writing,” and ending with ancient ‘literate” societies, the apex of which is ancient Greece and Rome. … Continue reading
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Manifesto Revisited
Manifesto: Why Study and Write Social Histories of Rhetoric? Social histories of rhetoric(s) study the use of rhetorical practices by communities and members of communities who haven’t been typically represented mainstream rhetorical history. Working under this assumption, it … Continue reading
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Chapter 3 of David Halperin’s “How to do the History of Homosexuality”—“Historicizing the Subject of Desire”
In this chapter, Halperin clarifies misinterpretations of Foucault’s arguments on the discourse of sexuality, and then compares his own interpretation of the pseudo-Lucianic ancient text titled Erotes to modern discourses of sexuality. In the process, Halperin affirms Foucault’s argument that … Continue reading
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Chapter 5: “Ties that Bind: A Comparative Analysis of Zora Neal Hurston’s and Geneva Smitherman’s Work” by Kimmika L. H. Williams
In this chapter, Williams analyzes the similar rhetorical features of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) that Hurston and Smitherman identified in their research nearly forty years apart form one another and situates them within African American Rhetoric(s) (AAR). Their findings, … Continue reading
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Manifesto for Social Histories of Rhetoric
Manifesto: Why Study and Write Social Histories of Rhetoric?” If we define social histories as the histories of everyday lives which haven’t been typically represented in mainstream histories, then I am assuming social histories of rhetoric(s) pertains to the use … Continue reading
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“Seeing Ancient Rhetoric, Easily at a Glance” James Fredal
In this article, Fredal, utimately concerned with limiting definitions of rhetoric for our postmodern world, defines rhetoric as “the exchange of meaning within a social system through which meaning, culture, identity, knowledge and practice are produced and circulated” (183). In … Continue reading
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