1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics offers a broad and comprehensive understanding of comparative or world rhetoric, from ancient times to the modern day. Bringing together an international team of established and emergent scholars, this Handbook looks beyond Greco-Roman traditions in the study of rhetoric to provide an international, cross-cultural study of communication practices around the globe.
With dedicated sections covering theory and practice, history, pedagogy, hybrids and the modern context, this extensive collection will provide the reader with a solid understanding of:
- how comparative rhetoric evolved
- how it re-defines and expands the field of rhetorical studies
- what it contributes to our understanding of human communication
- its implications for the advancement of related fields, such as composition, technology, language studies, and literacy.
In a world where understanding how people communicate, argue, and persuade is as important as understanding their languages, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics is an essential resource for scholars and students of communication, composition, rhetoric, cultural studies, cultural rhetoric, cross-cultural studies, transnational studies, translingual studies, and languages.
Chapter One: Comparative World Rhetorics: The What and How
Keith Lloyd
Part I: What is Comparative Rhetoric?
Chapter Two: Redefining Comparative Rhetoric: Essence, Facts, and Events
LuMing Mao
Chapter Three: The Intersection between Intercultural Communication and Comparative Rhetoric studies: A Review and Case Studies
Xing (Lucy) Lu
Chapter Four: What is Jewish Rhetoric? Issues of Diasporas, Nationalities, Cultures, and Pre-Human Emergence: A Case Study
Steven B. Katz
Chapter Five: Rhetorical Histories of Comparison: An Archaeology
of the Comparative Act
Lance Cummings
Chapter Six: Rhetoric out of Context: The Challenge of Contemplative Rhetoric
Joshua DiCaglio
Part II: History/Recovery
Chapter Seven: Confucian Deliberation: A Rational Reconstruction of Themes in the Analects
Arabella Lyon
Chapter Eight: From Oratory to Writing: An Overview of Chinese Classical Rhetoric (500 BCE-220 CE)
Hui Wu
Chapter Nine: Was There an Art of (Asiatic) Rhetoric at Halicarnassus? A Plea for Rediscovering the Lost Centers of Classical Rhetoric
Richard Leo Enos
Chapter Ten: An Overview of Kut and Töre as the Pillars of the Turkish Rhetorical Tradition
Elif Guler
Chapter Eleven: On the Differences Between Ma’atian Communicative Solidarity and the Socratic Dialectic
Melba Vélez Ortiz
Chapter Twelve: Hadassah, that is Esther:’ Diasporic Rhetoric in the Book of Esther
Eliza Gellis
Chapter Thirteen: Foundations in Vedic Rhetorical Culture: Approaching Mokṣa Analogically
Anne Melfi
Chapter Fourteen: Epistolary Rhetoric
Rasha Diab
Chapter Fifteen: Through the Magic Glass of Sufism: Studying Orientalism in Sufism
Eda Ozyesilpinar and Firasat Jabeen
Chapter Sixteen: Rhetorical Comparison of Hindu God Krishna and Plato: Towards Exploring Hindu Rhetoric and Greek Rhetoric
Sweta Baniya
Chapter Seventeen: Hair-splitting critics and pair-splitting circumstances: the persuasive role of stylistic ornaments in Aśvaghoṣa’s Saundarananda
Elizabeth Thornton
Chapter Eighteen: Yuğ□Ceremony□in the Steppe:□Rhetorics□of□Grief in□Turkic Community Formations
Iklim Goksel
Part III: Contemporary Comparative Studies
Chapter Nineteen: I Have No Mother Tongue": (Re)Conceptualizing Rhetorical Voice in Indonesia
Amber Engelson
Chapter Twenty: Is Modern Chinese Writing Close to Contemporary English Writing?—Rhetorical modes of Chinese expository paragraphs
Donghong (Julie) Liu
Chapter Twenty-One: Ubuntu: A Rhetorical Look at An African Concept of Community and Life
Leonora Anyango-Kivuva
Chapter Twenty-Two: You Know You’re Filipino When": nostalgic tropes of Filipinoness in YouTube videos by second-generation Filipino Americans
Daphne-Tatiana (Data) T. Canlas
Part IV: Hybrids
Chapter Twenty-Three: Modern Holism: The Hybrid Rhetorics of Insight Meditation
Tyler Carter
Chapter Twenty-Four: Usable Presents: Hybridity in/for Postcolonial African Rhetorics
Stephen K. Dadugblor
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Study of Rhetoric in Japan: A Survey of Rhetorical Research from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
Massimiliano Tomasi
Chapter Twenty-Six: Recontextualizing Comparative Rhetoric
Michelle Zalestki
Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Comparative Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Indigenous Rhetorics in the Americas
Abraham Romney
Chapter Twenty-Eight: New Materialist Orientations to Comparative Historiographical Methods: Places of Invention and Public Memory In Situ
Erin Cromer Twal
Chapter Twenty-Nine Nüshu, the Unique Female Rhetoric in the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition
Xiaobo (Belle) Wang
Chapter Thirty: A Feminist Praxis of Comparative Rhetoric
Mari Lee Mifsud
Part V: Applying and Promoting Comparative Pedagogies
Chapter Thirty-One: Bringing Comparative Methodologies into the US-Centric Major: Questioning the Nature of "History" and "Text" for Cross-Cultural Learning in English Studies
Tarez Samra Graban and Meghan Velez
Chapter Thirty-Two: Cultivating Transnational Thinking Through World Rhetorics
Xiaoye You
Chapter Thirty-Three: Enacting Comparative Pedagogies as Common Topics
Hua Zhu and Yebing Zhao
Chapter Thirty-Four: Teaching World Rhetorics: Promoting Pedagogy and Addressing Politics
Shyam Sharma
Part VI: New Directions
Chapter Thirty-Five: Comparative Rhetorics of Technology and the Energies of Ancient Indian Robots
Miles C. Coleman
Chapter Thirty-Six: Using Bridging Rhetoric for Deliberative Dissent: Some Insights from India
Keith Lloyd
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Doing Rhetoric Elsewhere: Chicanx Indigeneities, Colonial Peripheries, and the Underside of Written Communication
Damián Baca
Chapter Thirty Eight: Comparative Balāghah: Arabic and Ancient Egyptian Literary Rhetoric Through the Lens of Post-Eurocentric Poetics
Hany Rashwan
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Singing "Nan Yar?": The Ecstatic Transmissions of Avudai Akkal and The Awakening of Ramana Maharshi
Trey Conner and Richard Doyle
Chapter Forty: Preliminary Steps Towards a General Rhetoric: Existence, Thrivation, Transformation
Thomas Rickert
Biography
Professor of English at Kent State University Stark, Dr. Keith Lloyd’s research interests include promoting collaborative, innovative, and non-dualistic modes of political and cross-cultural communication. His work is published in Rhetoric Review, Rhetorica, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and the Handbook of Logical Thought in India.