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
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2019-07-03
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2019.1618159
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