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Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion
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Since its early history in Greek culture, traditional rhetorical study has focused primarily on persuasive language used in the public sphere. There has been little study, however, of what Jean Nienkamp calls internal rhetoric, which “occurs between one aspect of the self and another” inside one’s mind. Nienkamp opens the study of internal rhetoric by discussing how the concept developed alongside traditional classical and modern rhetorical theory.
Nienkamp shows how we talk to ourselves, or more specifically, how we talk ourselves into things: justifications, actions, opinions, theories. She explains that just because we see ourselves as divided, as torn in different directions by conflicting desires, duties, and social mores, it does not mean that we are fragmented, nor does it mean that we are split into discrete identities that neither interrelate nor interact.
In this groundbreaking study, Nienkamp identifies two major aspects of internal rhetoric: “the conscious ‘art’ of cultivated internal rhetoric” and “the unconscious ‘nature’ of primary internal rhetoric.” Selecting a small number of figures from the history of rhetoric—including Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Lord Shaftesbury, Richard Whately, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, George Herbert Mead, and Lev Vygotsky—Nienkamp argues for a “version of the rhetorical self that takes into account both the ways we are formed by and formulate internal and external rhetorics and the ways our physical bodies act as a contributing scene—an agora—for internal rhetoric.”
Nienkamp shows how we talk to ourselves, or more specifically, how we talk ourselves into things: justifications, actions, opinions, theories. She explains that just because we see ourselves as divided, as torn in different directions by conflicting desires, duties, and social mores, it does not mean that we are fragmented, nor does it mean that we are split into discrete identities that neither interrelate nor interact.
In this groundbreaking study, Nienkamp identifies two major aspects of internal rhetoric: “the conscious ‘art’ of cultivated internal rhetoric” and “the unconscious ‘nature’ of primary internal rhetoric.” Selecting a small number of figures from the history of rhetoric—including Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Lord Shaftesbury, Richard Whately, Kenneth Burke, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, George Herbert Mead, and Lev Vygotsky—Nienkamp argues for a “version of the rhetorical self that takes into account both the ways we are formed by and formulate internal and external rhetorics and the ways our physical bodies act as a contributing scene—an agora—for internal rhetoric.”
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184 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,2001
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184 pages, Hardcover
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November 7, 2001 by Southern Illinois University Press
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9780809324064
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0809324067
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English
About the author
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Jean Nienkamp is a professor in the English department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Jean Nienkamp's areas of interest include all aspects of rhetoric, and she is currently researching internal rhetorics; ethics, epistemology, and rhetoric; and Stephen Toulmin. Her most recent book, Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001), has been described as"thought provoking, intelligently organized and clearly written . . . articulat[ing] a point of view that can be recognized as something theorists have been trying to say all along"(Argumentation and Advocacy, Fall 2002).
Jean's favorite pastime is hiking in Pennsylvania's beautiful woods with her dogs, Lincoln and Rori.
Jean Nienkamp's areas of interest include all aspects of rhetoric, and she is currently researching internal rhetorics; ethics, epistemology, and rhetoric; and Stephen Toulmin. Her most recent book, Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001), has been described as"thought provoking, intelligently organized and clearly written . . . articulat[ing] a point of view that can be recognized as something theorists have been trying to say all along"(Argumentation and Advocacy, Fall 2002).
Jean's favorite pastime is hiking in Pennsylvania's beautiful woods with her dogs, Lincoln and Rori.
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