Rhetoric Society Quarterly May 2018

Sound: Resonance as Rhetorical

Byron Hawk Schlumberger (Ireland)

Abstract

Sound has typically been approached as an object of study that gets rhetorical theory applied to it in order to interpret its meaning. Both sound and theory remain unchanged. Understood as vibration that materially affects bodies, however, a sonic orientation toward rhetoric has the potential to further develop theoretical models of situatedness and newer rhetorical concepts such as resonance.

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2018-05-27
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2018.1454219
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