LEADER 04488nam 2200649 450 001 9910787946303321 005 20230803195855.0 010 $a1-61117-384-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000570769 035 $a(OCoLC)893284839 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10951833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001349332 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11877394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349332 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11400230 035 $a(PQKB)11579750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2054855 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2054855 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10951833 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL650590 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000570769 100 $a20141014h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRhetorical touch $edisability, identification, haptics /$fShannon Walters 210 1$aColumbia, South Carolina :$cThe University of South Carolina Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in Rhetoric/Communication 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-19310-X 311 $a1-61117-383-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds, Shannon Walters explores how people with various disabilities--psychological, cognitive, and physical--employ touch to establish themselves as communicators and to connect with disabled and nondisabled audiences. In doing so, she argues for a theory of rhetoric that understands and values touch as rhetorical. Essential to her argument is a redefinition of key concepts and terms--the rhetorical situation, rhetorical identification, and the appeals of ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic or message). By connecting Empedoclean and sophistic theories to Aristotelian rhetoric and Burkean approaches, Walters's methods mobilize a wide range of key figures in rhetorical history and theory in response to the context of disability. Using Empedocles' tactile approach to logos, Walters shows how the iterative writing processes of people with psychological disabilities shape crucial spaces for identification based on touch in online and real life spaces. Mobilizing the touch-based properties of the rhetorical practice of mētis, Walters demonstrates how rhetors with autism approach the crafting of ethos in generative and embodied ways. Rereading the rhetorical practice of kairos in relation to the proximity between bodies, Walters demonstrates how writers with physical disabilities move beyond approaches of pathos based on pity and inspiration. The volume also includes a classroom-based exploration of the discourses and assumptions regarding bodies in relation to haptic, or touch-based, technologies. Because the sense of touch is the most persistent of the senses, Walters argues that in contexts of disability and in situations in which people with and without disabilities interact, touch can be a particularly vital instrument for creating meaning, connection, and partial identification. She contends that a rhetoric thus reshaped stretches contemporary rhetoric and composition studies to respond to the contributions of disabled rhetors and transforms the traditional rhetorical appeals and canons. Ultimately, Walters argues, a rhetoric of touch allows for a richer understanding of the communication processes of a wide range of rhetors who use embodied strategies. "--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aStudies in rhetoric/communication. 606 $aRhetoric 606 $aTouch$xPsychological aspects 606 $aPeople with disabilities 606 $aHaptic devices 615 0$aRhetoric. 615 0$aTouch$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities. 615 0$aHaptic devices. 676 $a808 686 $aLAN015000$aLAN004000$aSOC029000$2bisacsh 700 $aWalters$b Shannon$01533202 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787946303321 996 $aRhetorical touch$93779965 997 $aUNINA