The Rhetoric of Physical Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12465265 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay P Childers (0009-0005-8147-3372, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric and Public Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-8392 • E-ISSN: 1534-5238 |
| Publisher | Michigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14321/rhetpublaffa.25.3.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4360924249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay serves as the introductory essay for this special issue on “The Rhetoric of Violence.” In conversation with the six other essays in this special issue, I suggest that scholars in our field need to focus more explicitly on the rhetorical purposes of physical violence. To support that suggestion, I offer a working definition of how we might conceptualize violence broadly and then distinguish physical violence from two others kinds that rhetorical scholars have been studying for years now—rhetorical violence and structural violence. Distinguishing that first mode of violence as worthy of more of our attention. I then argue that the primary purpose of most physical violence is to affectively and symbolically define and reinforce individual and group identities
Conversation · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Communication · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |