Composing place
Abstract
In James Berlin's, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures, he outlines how Social-Epistemic Rhetoric (SER) can inform composition theory and pedagogy. Much of Berlin's aim is to show how theories of SER can be used as a tool to expose for students discursive practices that reinforce political, economic, and social inequalities that exist and are perpetuated in the production, distribution, and reception of texts. But Berlin also describes aspects of SER that includes the social and material conditions, and how these forces also influence discourse and knowledge. This dissertation extends Berlin's stance on how the social and material conditions operate in the production, distribution, and reception of texts. As a result, "place" is a discursive construct that emerges through language by an individual in conjunction with the social and material conditions of a particular historical moment. Subsequently, the way one composes texts is discursively influenced by place, and this has consequences to the way one makes meaning, the way one understands knowledge, the way one interprets/analyzes history, the way one understands oneself in relation to others, and the way one teaches writing.
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