Ch.9 Alternative Rhetorical Theories

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

refers to a process by which meanings are created in a community of people as well as the products of this process

ex. Rhetoric both influences culture/gender, and is influenced by culture/gender

Question 2

Intersectionality

Answer 2

The ways in which aspects of our identities converge

ex. the multiplicity of lived experience, with particular interests in how patterns of
oppression are interrelated in institutional practices

Question 3

Gloria Anzaldua’s “New Mestiza Consciousness”

Answer 3

A theory describing a consciousness of duality. Perceptions are created by living on the margins or border spaces

Question 4

Comparative Rhetoric

Answer 4

Studying a culture’s rhetoric from its own perspective which includes ethical questions about how to study cross-cultural rhetorical work

Question 5

Afrocentricity

Answer 5

Centering black experiences, joy, empowerment, etc. in theories of rhetoric

Question 6

Nommo

Answer 6

the power of words to move audiences; includes the sounds that words make.
“words’ vibrancy force”

Question 7

Comparative/Cultural Rhetoric

Answer 7

Comparative rhetorical traditions across different societies and cultural is how to create meaning and knowledge. Cultures are rhetorical.