Rhetoric Review Jul 2019

Our Bodies and the Language We Learn: The Dialectic of Burkean Identification in the 1930s

Jaclyn S. Olson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abstract

Rhetorical scholars have long regarded identification as a concept central to Kenneth Burke’s work. However, a close reading of Burke’s work of the 1930s locates the early incarnations of identification in the dialectical relationship between human embodiment and symbolicity. By restoring the complications neglected by a largely symbolic approach to identification through increased attention to the body and the material consequences of symbolicity, a revised understanding of Burkean identification captures more effectively the complex material and symbolic divisions that characterize human social life and prescribes means of negotiating these divisions.

Journal
Rhetoric Review
Published
2019-07-03
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2019.1618159
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