Rhetorical Animals - Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion

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

Edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl and Alex C. Parrish - Contributions by Kristian Bjørkdahl; Alex C. Parrish; Marilyn M. Cooper; T. Jake Dionne; Ellen W. Gorsevski; Iklim Goksel; Dustin A. Greenwalt; David R. Gruber; Andrea Gutiérrez; Susan Hafen; Matthew Lerb

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Parrish Bjorkdahl, Kristian Parrish Bjrkdahl
• Assisted by: Kristian Bjorkdahl (Editor), Kristian Bjørkdahl (Editor), Bjorkdahl Kristian (Editor), Alex C. Parrish (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781498558471
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5847-1
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Die Natur: Sachbuch, NATURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism