Challenging Audiences to Listen: The Performance of Self-Disclosure in Community Writing Projects
Justin Lohr
University of Maryland, College Park
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Heather Lindenman
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Young people have the potential to transform public perspectives about pressing social issues—if their audiences listen deeply to what they have to say. This article examines the ways that high school student participants in a community-university writing partnership employ self-disclosure, or emotion sharing, to encourage audiences to listen empathically to performances about complex social issues. Our analysis of two student performance pieces reveals rhetorical strategies that might promote empathic listening. We argue that empathic listening is a necessary precondition for the kind of collective community listening that can lead to social change.
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- Community Literacy Journal
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- 2019-01-01
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- 10.25148/clj.13.1.009091
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