Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis

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Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis. / Pietrucci, Pamela.

In: Res Rhetorica, Vol. 9, No. 4, 24.12.2022, p. 4-28.

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Pietrucci, P 2022, 'Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis', Res Rhetorica, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 4-28. <https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/664 >

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Pietrucci, P. (2022). Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis. Res Rhetorica, 9(4), 4-28. https://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/664

Vancouver

Pietrucci P. Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis. Res Rhetorica. 2022 Dec 24;9(4):4-28.

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Pietrucci, Pamela. / Inventing Local Rhetorics: Towards a topographic critical praxis. In: Res Rhetorica. 2022 ; Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. 4-28.

Bibtex

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abstract = "This essay offers a pluralized conception of local rhetorics. The local has traditionally been conceived as the backdrop or flat surface where rhetoric/discourse is situated, or at best as a contextual dimension of rhetorical situations. The history of usage of this term––evoking a fix and inert connotation that often indicates a bounded locality or site––has contributed to its neglect as a tool for rhetorical theory, while its actual use in rhetorical praxis has proliferated in conjunction to the turn to field and site-based methodologies and practices. By drawing on fieldwork about the rhetoricity of a post-disaster locality to ground my theoretical reflections, here I offer a conceptualization of local rhetorics via multiple ontologies and ecological theories. Finally, throughout the essay, I suggest a rhetorical-topographic approach as a methodological orientation to integrate existing theoretical and methodological pathways for exploring the multiple rhetoricity of the local. Keywords: local rhetorics, space, materiality, fieldwork, in-situ methodologies",
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