TY - JOUR
T1 - Articulating rhetorical field methods
T2 - Challenges and tensions
AU - Middleton, Michael K.
AU - Senda-Cook, Samantha
AU - Endres, Danielle
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Critical rhetoricians are increasingly adopting in situ rhetorical methods such as participant observation at protests, consumer sites, and memorials. Despite their value, the ad hoc development of central methodological and analytic commitments of such approaches is cause for concern. In this essay, we synthesize these efforts to name a methodological approach-rhetorical field methods-for analyzing everyday rhetorical experience and articulate the commitments and concerns that motivate this approach, thus creating a focus for debate about in situ rhetorical study. We elaborate on three commitments, articulate some critical problematics, and identify heuristic questions and possibilities of this approach. We conclude by discussing rhetorical field methods' contributions to intradisciplinary communication research.
AB - Critical rhetoricians are increasingly adopting in situ rhetorical methods such as participant observation at protests, consumer sites, and memorials. Despite their value, the ad hoc development of central methodological and analytic commitments of such approaches is cause for concern. In this essay, we synthesize these efforts to name a methodological approach-rhetorical field methods-for analyzing everyday rhetorical experience and articulate the commitments and concerns that motivate this approach, thus creating a focus for debate about in situ rhetorical study. We elaborate on three commitments, articulate some critical problematics, and identify heuristic questions and possibilities of this approach. We conclude by discussing rhetorical field methods' contributions to intradisciplinary communication research.
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U2 - 10.1080/10570314.2011.586969
DO - 10.1080/10570314.2011.586969
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960700973
VL - 75
SP - 386
EP - 406
JO - Western Journal of Communication
JF - Western Journal of Communication
SN - 1057-0314
IS - 4
ER -