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Inviting Understanding

A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric
Buch | Softcover
414 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7412-8 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative collection of new and published works designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by the volume editors.
Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative reference work designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin. This theory challenges the conventional conception of rhetoric as persuasion and defines rhetoric as an invitation to understanding as a means to create a relationship rooted in equality, immanent value, and self-determination. Rather than celebrating argumentation, division, and winning, invitational rhetoric encourages rhetors to listen across differences, to engage in dialogue, and to try to understand positions different from their own.



Organized into the three categories of foundations, extensions, and applications, Inviting Understanding is a compilation of published articles and new essays that explore and expand the theory. The book provides readers with access to a wide range of resources about this revolutionary theory in areas such as community organizing, social justice activism, social media, film, graffiti, institutional and team decision making, communication and composition pedagogy, and interview protocols.



Current cultural, social, and political divisions in the United States and across the world suggest that the principles and practices of invitational rhetoric are sorely needed, and a volume that demonstrates its application in various contexts may inspire readers to put it into practice in the contexts in which they work and live.

Sonja Foss is Professor of Communication at the University of Denver. She is co-author of Inviting Transformation: Presentational Speaking for a Changing World, 3rd edition (Waveland Press, 2012), which presents an entirely new model of presentational speaking rooted in invitational rhetoric, Women Speak: The Eloquence of Women’s Lives (with Karen A. Foss) (Waveland Press, 1991) and Gender Stories: Negotiating Identity in a Binary World (with Karen A. Foss and Mary E. Domenico) (Waveland Press, 2013). Cindy Griffin is Professor of Communication at Colorado State University. She is the author of Invitation to Public Speaking, 6th edition (Cengage, 2018) and Invitation to Human Communication, 2nd edition (Cengage, 2017). She is also the coauthor (with Karma Chavez) of Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies (SUNY Press, 2012), which received the Outstanding Book Award of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender in 2012 and is completing a book on gender and communication, Beyond Gender Binaries: An Intersectional Orientation to Communication and Identities (SUNY Press)

Part I. Foundations

1 The Womanization of Rhetoric

Sally Miller Gearhart

2 Proposal for a Feminist Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

3 Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

4 Beyond Traditional Conceptualizations of Rhetoric: Invitational Rhetoric and a Move toward Civility

Jennifer E. Bone, Cindy L. Griffin, and T. M. Linda Scholz

5 The Metatheoretical Foundations of Invitational Rhetoric: Axiological, Epistemological, and Ontological Explorations

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin



Part II. Extensions

6 Fusing Horizons: Standpoint Hermeneutics and Invitational Rhetoric

Kathleen J. Ryan and Elizabeth J. Natalle

7 Telling the Story, Hearing the Story: Narrative Co-Construction and Crisis Research

Karen Taylor, Rita Durant, and David Boje

8 Planting Seeds of Change: Ella Baker’s Radical Rhetoric

Marilyn DeLaure Bordwell

9 Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s The Open Space of Democracy

Jill Swiencicki

10 Invention for the Invitational Rhetor: Allen Ginsberg’s “Wichita Vortex Sutra”

Stephen M. Llano

11 Challenges to the Enactment of Invitational Rhetoric in the Age of Mobile Communication Technologies

Sonja K. Foss and Jeanine Warisse Turner



Part III. Applications

12 Love as a Strategy for Community and Social Justice Organizing: Invitational Rhetoric in Murfreesboro Loves

Roberta Chevrette and Joshua Hendricks

13 Practicing Invitational Rhetoric: East Central Ministries’ Approach to Community Development

Sarah De Los Santos Upton

14 Discussions on Kneeling During the National Anthem: An Analysis of High School Football Players Employing Invitational Rhetoric

Kristen A. Hungerford

15 An Invitation to Rhetoric: A Generative Dialogue on Performance, Possibility, and Feminist Potentialities in Invitational Rhetoric

Bryant Keith Alexander and Michele Hammers

16 Understanding Affectively: Beyond the Hills as Cinematic Invitational Rhetoric

Alina Haliliuc

17 Participatory Graffiti as Invitational Rhetoric: The Case of O Machismo

Benjamin R. Bates

18 Invitational Rhetoric as a Springboard to Using Dialogue across the Curriculum

Patricia Hawk and Rachel Pokora

19 Creating an Invitational Classroom Environment: Lessons Lived and Learned

Donna Marie Nudd

20 Disrupting Disruption: Invitational Pedagogy as a Response to Student Resistance

A. Abby Knoblauch

21 An Invitation to Reason: The Process of Discovery Essay

Kathleen M. Hunzer

22 Considering the Alternative in Composition Pedagogy: Teaching Invitational Rhetoric with Lynda Barry’s What It Is

Susan Kirtley



Part IV. Expanding the Invitation

23 The Theory of Invitational Rhetoric: Anticipating Future Scholarship

Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin

24 Compendium of Publications Related to Invitational Rhetoric

Sonja K. Foss, Cindy L. Griffin, and Andrew Gilmore

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 177 x 254 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5381-7412-X / 153817412X
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-7412-8 / 9781538174128
Zustand Neuware
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