Embodied rhetoric
understanding not only minds but bodies as producers of meaning in composition
"that sense of knowing something through the body...a purposeful decision to include embodied knowledge and social positionalities as forms of meaning making within a text itself”
--Knoblauch, "Bodies of Knowledge: Definitions, Delineations, and Implications of Embodied Writing in the Academy"
Is rhetoric a purely mental exercise?
Can bodies know something? Can we learn with our bodies?
Hawhee: Rhetoric's history as a bodily art
Relate Hawhee's argument to Gregerson and Godal. How does each talk about "embodiment"? For what purpose?
How do both frame embodiment as rhetorical?
("the art of discerning in any given situation the available means of persuasion" = Aristotle
"inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols" = Burke)
Examples of bodily rhetoric?
Thích Quảng Đức[1] (1897 – 11 June 1963, born Lâm Văn Túc), was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963.[2] Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm.
Style Wars: Graffiti as Bodily Competition
Embodied rheoric
By Laura E Thain
