Rhetorical Animals : Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion.

Cover -- Rhetorical Animals -- Rhetorical Animals -- Contents -- Introduction -- Rhetoric As The Mark Of Humanity -- Hoots In The Dark -- Tracking Animals: The Present And Future Of Cross-species Rhetorics -- Furthering Animal Rhetorics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I -- EXPANDING BOUNDARIES-INTERNALLY -- Chapter 1 -- Multiple Rhetorical Animals -- Theorizing The Emotions In Cognitive Neuroscience -- Reading Motivation And Fairness In Cognitive Neuroscience -- Conclusion: Many Rhetorical Animals, Or New Directions For Rhetoric And The Emotions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- A Humanimal Rhetorics of Biological Materiality -- Minds And Behavior -- Bodies And Bodyminds -- Sex And Symbiosis -- Conclusion: A Return To Origins -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Let's Listen with Our Feet -- Animal Rhetoricity -- Haptic Modes: Thermodynamics -- Haptic Modes: Texture-pressure -- Haptic Modes: Vibration -- Haptic Modes: Pain -- Haptic Rhetoricity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Human Boundary Seepage, Bacterial Rhetorics -- Combinatorial Communication In Bacteria: Nonsymbolic Motion? Symbolic Action? -- Bacterial Communication And The Human Body: Microbial Endocrinology And The Holobiont -- Affective Transmission Across Bodies: The Microbial Influence On Group Cohesion -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II -- EXPANDING BOUNDARIES-EXTERNALLY -- Chapter 5 -- The Biotic Turn in Rhetoric -- Transitional Terms Toward A Biotic Turn -- Theorists Creating Space For Humanimality -- As Sensory "mutation" Rhetoric -- Examples Of -- Concluding Directions For Bio-turning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- Toward a Rhetorical Ethology -- Ethological Rhetorics -- Ethology And Rhetorical Ecologies -- Ecological Contexts -- Ecological Communication -- Rhetorical Ethology As A Typological Enterprise.

Topoi, Typologies, And Aristotle's Animals -- Counting Animal Affects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- Beyond a Patriarchal Rhetorical Economy -- Nonhuman Animal With -- The Nonhuman Animal's Implications For Turkic Rhetoric -- The Nonhuman Animal In The Turkish Social And Political Space -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- Humans, Dolphins, and Other People -- On Naming -- Establishing Personhood -- Dolphin Communication -- Dolphin Individuality -- Dolphin Superhumans -- Different, Not Better -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III -- FURTHER EXPANSION: CROSS-SPECIES AND ACROSS CULTURES -- Chapter 9 -- Learning to Howl -- The Transhuman Turn In Communication Studies -- Anthrozoology, Zoosemiotics, And Peircean Abduction -- Working With Dogs -- Canine Communication -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- Touring the Sixth Persona -- Toward An Expanded Universe Of Speculation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 -- How Dogs (and Other Nonhuman Animals) Become Interesting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 -- How to Understand a Parrot's Words and What You Can Learn from Him -- Screaming [silently], Beyond The Reach Of Ordinary Humans -- Debates On Articulation: When Sanskrit Grammarians Talk About Speaking -- Out Of The Cage And Into The- -- More Pre-modern Paradigms For Speech -- A Little Bird Told Them -- Articulating Agency -- Conclusion: Articulating Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 -- The Rhetoric of Nonanthropocentric Rhetoric -- Reconfiguring Rhetoric -- Half-hearted Echoes Of A Hoot In The Dark -- Seminal, And -- Pathbreaking -- Heroes, Kooks, And The Grand Old Men In Between -- The Qualities Of Kennedy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Rhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, from the microscopic gut bacteria to the charismatic megafauna we know so well.

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