Inventing local rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis

Pamela Pietrucci

doi:10.29107/rr2022.4.1

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Inventing local rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis

Pamela Pietrucci University of Copenhagen

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This essay offers a pluralized conception of local rhetorics. The local has traditionally been conceived as the backdrop or flat surface where rhetoric/discourse is situated, or at best as a contextual dimension of rhetorical situations. The history of usage of this term – evoking a fix and inert connotation that often indicates a bounded locality or site – has contributed to its neglect as a tool for rhetorical theory, while its actual use in rhetorical praxis has proliferated in conjunction to the turn to field and site-based methodologies and practices. By drawing on fieldwork about the rhetoricity of a post-disaster locality to ground my theoretical reflections, here I offer a conceptualization of local rhetorics via multiple ontologies and ecological theories. Finally, throughout the essay, I suggest a rhetorical-topographic approach as a methodological orientation to integrate existing theoretical and methodological pathways for exploring the multiple rhetoricity of the local.

Journal: Res Rhetorica
Published: 2022-12-23
DOI: 10.29107/rr2022.4.1
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Topics: modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism discourse analysis
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