Abstract
Intercultural rhetoric has a human-centered view of culture and considers humans’ ethnicities, beliefs, and social practices as crucial components of rhetorical traditions. Conceptualizing a posthumanist sociomaterial approach to intercultural rhetoric, this article suggests that writing across cultures can be viewed as rhetorical transition between two sociomaterial networks with non-human, as well as human, factors. It explains that posthuman intercultural rhetoric can turn into a field where researchers study political, economic, and administrative networks in which texts are funded, constructed, regulated, disseminated, sold, bought, and cited. This area of writing studies would be interested in how rhetoric is constructed and used as a power differential in historical, political, and economic interactions and conflicts. This perception of intercultural rhetoric has important pedagogical implications. Through this lens, educators can see that the genres that their students are often asked to engage with have been constructed to help the administration of a hegemonic political and economic system and that mastering dominant rhetorical practices often has little to do with student success or empowerment.
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Kalan, Amir
(2024)
"Towards a Posthumanist Sociomaterial Conceptualization of Intercultural Rhetoric,"
Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization: Vol. 12
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No.
1,
Article 1.
Available at:
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/rpcg/vol12/iss1/1