Unruly Rhetorics - Protest, Persuasion, and Publics (Paperback)

What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Ranciere and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of "unruliness" in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression - embodied, print, digital, and sonic - Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself.

General

Imprint:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Release date:	November 2018
Editors:	Jonathan Alexander • Susan C. Jarratt • Nancy Welch
Dimensions:	154 x 228 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-8229-6556-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Speaking / pronunciation skills > Public speaking / elocution
LSN:	0-8229-6556-9
Barcode:	9780822965565

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