Text + field : innovations in rhetorical method / edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard

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

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : articulating text and field in the nodes of rhetorical scholarship / Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard -- Interrogating the "field" / Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael K. Middleton, and Danielle Endres -- Rhetorical field methods in the tradition of imitatio / Joshua P. Ewalt, Jessy J. Ohl, and Damien Smith Pfister -- From Guåhan and back : navigating a "both/neither" analytic for rhetorical field studies / Tiara R. Na'puti -- Feeling rhetorical critics : another affective-emotional field method for rhetorical studies / Jamie Landau -- Embodied judgment : a call for a phronetic orientation in rhetorical ethnography / Aaron Hess -- "Pa que tú lo sepas" : experiences with co-presence in Puerto Rico / Kathleen M. de Onís -- It's like a prairie fire! : rhetorics of trust and reciprocity in the Texas coal plant opposition movement / Valerie Thatcher -- Being, evoking, and reflecting from the field : a case for critical ethnography in audience-centered rhetorical criticism / Alina Haliliuc -- Holographic rhetoric : de/colonizing public memory at Pueblo Grande / Roberta Chevrette -- Context drives method : studying social media use in a war zone / Lisa Silvestri -- Afterword : decentralizing and regenerating the field / Phaedra C. Pezzullo

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