Text + Field

Innovations in Rhetorical Method

Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard, Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard, Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, Robert Glenn Howard

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780271078120
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

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