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Rhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, from the microscopic gut bacteria to the charismatic megafauna we know so well.
List of contents
Part I: Expanding Boundaries - Internally
Chapter 1: Multiple Rhetorical Animals: Motivation and Fairness in a Paradigm of Rhetoric as Emotive Consciousness
David Gruber
Chapter 2: A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological Materiality
Hayley Zertuche
Chapter 3: Let's Listen With Our Feet: Animals, Neurodivergence, Vulnerability, and Haptic Rhetoricity
Kelin Loe
Chapter 4: Human Boundary Seepage and Bacterial Rhetorics
Jennifer Saltmarsh
Part II: Expanding Boundaries - Externally
Chapter 5: The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric: Ethical Internatural Communication as Suasory Peacebuilding
Ellen Gorsevski
Chapter 6: Towards an Ethological Rhetoric
Dustin Greenwalt
Chapter 7: Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy: Nonhuman Animals as Agents in Turkic Legends and Political Culture
Iklim Goksel
Chapter 8: Human, Dolphins, and Other People
Alex Parrish
Part III: Further Expansion: Cross-Species and Across Cultures
Chapter 9: Learning to Howl: An Exercise in Internatural Abduction
Emily Plec and Susan Hafen
Chapter 10: Touring the Sixth Persona: Dodos and the Rhetorical Effects of Missed Communication
Jake Dionne
Chapter 11: How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting)
Marilyn Cooper
Chapter 12: How to Understand a Parrot's Words and What You Can Learn from Him: Early Indian Writers on Animal Speech
Andrea Gutierrez
Chapter 13: The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric Rhetoric
Bjørkdahl, Kristian
About the author
Kristian Bjørkdahl is postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo.
Alex C. Parrish is assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and technical communication at James Madison University.
Summary
Rhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, from the microscopic gut bacteria to the charismatic megafauna we know so well.
