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Title:

Crossing borders, drawing boundaries : the rhetoric of lines across America / edited by Barbara Couture, Patti Wojahn.

Publisher:

Utah State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Communication in politics--United States.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.
Democracy--United States.

Other Authors:

Couture, Barbara, editor.
Wojahn, Patti, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

In sum and review : the rhetoric of lines across us / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn. Metonymic borders and our sense of nation / Victor Villanueva -- Continuity and contact in a cosmopolitan world : code-switching and its effects on community identity / Christopher Schroeder -- Humor's role in political discourse : examining border patrol in "Colbert nation" / Jonathan P. Rossing -- Employing ethos to cross the borders of difference: teaching civil discourse / Karen P. Peirce -- Crossing linguistic borders in the classroom : moving beyond English-only to tap rich linguistic resources / Anita C. Hern©Łndez, Jos©♭ A. Montelongo, and Roberta J. Herter -- Traversing rhetorical borders of spirituality in an academic setting / Susan A. Schiller -- Difference as rhetorical stance : developing meaningful interactions and identification across racial and ethnic lines / Monica Torres and Kathryn Valentine -- "I am the 99 percent" : identification and division in the rhetorics of the Occupy Wall Street protests / Randolph Cauthen -- American rhetorics of disappearance : translocal feminist problem-solving rhetorics / Tricia C. Serviss -- "A melting pot that's constantly being stirred" : rhetorics of race and tolerance at a regional museum / Cori Brewster -- De pie sobre la valla y mirando por la ventana : border realities of the immigrant experience / Vanessa Cozza -- Fostering inclusive dialogue in emergent university-community partnerships : setting the stage for intercultural inquiry / Elenore Long, Jennifer Clifton, Andrea Alden, and Judy Holiday -- Rhetorical education at the city's edge : the challenge of public rhetoric in suburban America / Robert Brooke -- In sum and review : the rhetoric of lines across us / Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn.

Summary:

"A timely rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. To see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1607324024 (pbk.)
9781607324027 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910334499

LCCN:

2015050083

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)