Full Description
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.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Articulating Text and Field in the Nodes of Rhetorical Scholarship
by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard
1. Interrogating the "Field"
by Samantha Senda-Cook, Michael Middleton, and Danielle Endres
2. Rhetorical Field Methods in the Tradition of Imitatio
by Joshua P. Ewalt, Jessy J. Ohl, and Damien Smith Pfister
3. From Guåhan and Back: Navigating a "Both/Neither" Analytic for Rhetorical Field Methods
by Tiara R. Na'puti
4. Feeling Rhetorical Critics: Another Affective-Emotional Field Method for Rhetorical Studies
by Jamie Landau
5. Embodied Judgment: A Call for a Phronetic Orientation in Rhetorical Ethnography
by Aaron Hess
6. "Pa' Que Tú Lo Sepas": Experiences with Co-presence in Puerto Rico
by Kathleen M. de Onís
7. It's Like a Prairie Fire! Rhetorics of Trust and Reciprocity in the Texas Coal Plant Opposition Movement
by Valerie Thatcher
8. Being, Evoking, and Reflecting from the Field: A Case for Critical Ethnography in Audience-Centered Rhetorical Criticism
by Alina Haliliuc
9. Holographic Rhetoric: De/Colonizing Public Memory at Pueblo Grande
by Roberta Chevrette
10. Context Drives Method: Studying Social Media Use in a Warzone
by Lisa Silvestri
Afterword: Decentralizing and Regenerating the Field
by Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Notes
Index
