Mobile Bodies: Triggering Bodily Uptake through Movement

College Composition and Communication Dec 2016

Mobile Bodies: Triggering Bodily Uptake through Movement

Jennifer Lin LeMesurier

Abstract

This article explores bodily movement practices as a foundational component of rhetorical awareness. Through ethnographic study of dance pedagogy, the author demonstrates how genre uptake is enabled by bodily experience; learned ways of moving produce inclinations toward certain rhetorical pathways over others.Enabling students to uptake new genres means teaching them to be aware of the intersection of bodily and intellectual resources.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2016-12-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc201628882
Open Access: Closed
Topics: genre theory multilingual writers

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