Resounding the Rhetorical offers an original critical and theoretical examination of
composition as a quasi-object. As composition flourishes in multiple media (digital, sonic …

Sound has typically been approached as an object of study that gets rhetorical theory
applied to it in order to interpret its meaning. Both sound and theory remain unchanged …

Sound can be an argument. To make this claim, this essay eschews traditional formalist
definitions of argument in favor of Wayne Brockriede's perspectivism. I focus on how sound …

In the opening paragraph of her August 2014 enculturation article,“Toward a Resonant
Material Vocality for Digital Composition,” Erin Anderson recounts, briefly, the development …

How might argumentation scholars approach sound? Using the analytics afforded by
strategic maneuvering, this essay identifies three unique features of sonic presentational …

This article positions the progymnasmata, an ancient sequence of rhetorical exercises, as a
rich resource for contemporary scholarship on rhetoric and sound. Drawing on work at the …

This article asks if soundscapes are reasonable by inquiring if they can be designed to
enhance the capacity for reasoned judgment. Using a normative pragmatic approach to …

Analyses of extremist video messages typically focus on their discursive content. Using the
case of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), this study instead draws upon the …

When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, sounds seemed either quiet or loud. There was
no nuance to my childhood ears. 1 The quiet: The soft murmur of the high school football …

Wir verstehen Argumentieren im Sinne einer empirisch rekonstruierbaren kommunikativen
Praktik im situativen Kontext (vgl. ua Deppermann 2003, Quasthoff/Kern 2007, Heller 2011 …