Rhetoric and Ethnography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19006510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth C Britt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecr049 |
| OpenAlex | W4244847144 |
| ISBN | 9781405131995 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
“Rhetoric” and “ethnography” are slippery concepts, each describing a practice or methodology as well as a class of textual objects. And while “rhetoric” describes an identifiable field of study more than does “ethnography,” which is most often associated with cultural anthropology, each is an inter‐ and cross‐disciplinary enterprise whose character can vary depending on its disciplinary home. Both rhetoric and ethnography – in their multiple meanings – have been individually challenged by postmodernism (→ Postmodernism and Communication), particularly by the loss of faith in grand, totalizing theories and the assumption that language plays a role in the construction of reality. But these challenges have also brought theorists and practitioners of rhetoric and ethnography together to explore how postmodern understandings of each concept can inform the other (→ Ethnography of Communication)
Aesthetics · Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnography · Faith · Linguistics · Postmodernism · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |