ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics offers a broad and comprehensive understanding of comparative or world rhetoric, from ancient times to the modern day. Bringing together an international team of established and emergent scholars, this Handbook looks beyond Greco-Roman traditions in the study of rhetoric to provide an international, cross-cultural study of communication practices around the globe.
With dedicated sections covering theory and practice, history, pedagogy, hybrids and the modern context, this extensive collection will provide the reader with a solid understanding of:
- how comparative rhetoric evolved
- how it re-defines and expands the field of rhetorical studies
- what it contributes to our understanding of human communication
- its implications for the advancement of related fields, such as composition, technology, language studies, and literacy.
In a world where understanding how people communicate, argue, and persuade is as important as understanding their languages, The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics is an essential resource for scholars and students of communication, composition, rhetoric, cultural studies, cultural rhetoric, cross-cultural studies, transnational studies, translingual studies, and languages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
What Is Comparative (World) Rhetoric(s)?
chapter 3|15 pages
The Intersection Between Intercultural Communication and Comparative Rhetoric Studies
chapter 4|9 pages
What Is “Jewish Rhetoric”?
part II|118 pages
History/Recovery
chapter 8|10 pages
From Oratory to Writing
chapter 9|10 pages
Was There an Art of (Asiatic) Rhetoric at Halicarnassus
chapter 16|9 pages
Rhetorical Comparison of Hindu God Krishna and Plato
chapter 17|12 pages
Hair-Splitting Critics and Pair-Splitting Circumstances
part III|45 pages
Contemporary Comparative Studies
chapter 22|12 pages
“You Know You’re Filipino When”
part IV|76 pages
Hybrids
chapter 25|9 pages
The Study of Rhetoric in Japan
chapter 28|10 pages
New Materialist Orientations to Comparative Historiographical Methods
part V|48 pages
Applying and Promoting Comparative Pedagogies
chapter 31|14 pages
Bringing Comparative Methodologies Into the US-Centric Major
part VI|59 pages
New Directions