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Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoricA" - the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It is the latter half that this volume explores: how does culture emerge out of rhetorical action, out of seemingly dispersed individual actions and interactions

The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

List of Figures



Preface







Introduction



Felix Girke and Christian Meyer







PART I: INTERSUBJECTIVITY







Chapter 1. The Dance of Rhetoric: Dialogic Selves and Spontaneously Responsive Expressions



John Shotter







Chapter 2. Co-opting Intersubjectivity: Dialogic Rhetoric of the Self



John W. DuBois







Chapter 3. Echo Chambers and Rhetoric. Sketch of a Model of Resonance Theory



Pierre Maranda







Chapter 4. Discourse beyond Language: Cultural Rhetoric, Revelatory Insight, and Nature



Donal Carbaugh and David Boromisza-Habashi







Chapter 5. The Spellbinding Aura of Culture. Tracing its Anthropological Discovery



Bernhard Streck







Chapter 6. Tenor in Culture



Ivo Strecker







PART II: EMERGENCE







Chapter 7. Attending the Vernacular. A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric



Gerard A. Hauser







Chapter 8. Enhoused Speech: The Rhetoric of Foi Territoriality



James F. Weiner







Chapter 9. Transcultural Rhetoric and Cyberspace



Filipp Sapienza







Chapter 10. Jesuit Rhetorics: Translation Versus Conversion in Early-Modern Goa



Alexander Henn







Chapter 11. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony. An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern Ethiopia



Felix Girke and Alula Pankhurst







PART III: AGENCY







Chapter 12. In Defense of the Orator. A Classicist Outlook on Rhetoric Culture



Franz-Hubert Robling







Chapter 13. Rhetoric, Anti-Structure, and the Social Formation of Authorship



James Thomas Zebroski







Chapter 14. Attention & Rhetoric: Prolepsis and the Problem of Meaning



Todd Oakley







Chapter 15. Emergence, Agency and the Middle Ground of Culture: A Meditation on Mediation



Stephen A. Tyler







Notes on Contributors



Index