IN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING

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dc.contributor.advisorKates, Susan
dc.contributor.authorMcRay, Mandi
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKurlinkus, William
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMountford, Roxanne
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-26T17:56:36Z
dc.date.available2018-01-26T17:56:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.manuscript2018
dc.description.abstractThe United States Marine Corps exists within American popular consciousness as a famed fighting force renowned for its unapologetic and well-earned reputation. Its recruit training process, colloquially known as "boot camp," remains the longest in duration of all United States military service branches, while also retaining the reputation of being the most physically arduous, the most emotionally, mentally intense. USMC Recruit Training, which takes place at Marine Corps Recruit Depots San Diego and Parris Island, serves as both generative place and enculturation process for creating new Marines from civilian recruits. Recruit Training, writ large in American public consciousness, has proved rich material for research and examination by various scholarly disciplines. Researchers in the social sciences have investigated this process of enculturation and new identity formation; however, an analysis of boot camp as a physical and temporal space in which rhetoric assumes a powerful role in identification moulding remains largely missing from the body of discourse surrounding Marine Corps Recruit Training. This work addresses the scholarly gap by using Kenneth Burke's frameworks of Identification and his (Symbolic) Action/(Nonsymbolic) Motion binary to examine three specific moments of embodied and spoken rhetoric. These moments include the memorization and group recitation of The Rifleman's Creed, recruits standing in their first formation on The Yellow Footprints outside each Recruit Depot's receiving barracks, and the act of marching and running in formation while singing lyric based chants. Each of these, I argue, operate as physical and temporal spaces in which embodied rhetorics help enact the process of building within recruits the shared group identity of Marine.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/54320
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectBurkeen_US
dc.subjectKenneth Burkeen_US
dc.subjectUnited States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.subjectethosen_US
dc.subjectidentificationen_US
dc.subjectconsubstantialityen_US
dc.subjectidentity creationen_US
dc.subjectactionen_US
dc.subjectmotionen_US
dc.subjectcadenceen_US
dc.subjectcall and responseen_US
dc.subjectcall-responseen_US
dc.subjectenculturationen_US
dc.subjectembodieden_US
dc.subjectrhetoricen_US
dc.subjectembodied rhetoricen_US
dc.subjectcorporealen_US
dc.subjectcorporealityen_US
dc.subjectgroup ethosen_US
dc.subjectcollective ethosen_US
dc.subjectgroup identityen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectconsubstantialen_US
dc.subjectMarineen_US
dc.subjectMarinesen_US
dc.subjectMarine Corpsen_US
dc.subjectUSMCen_US
dc.subjectUS Marinesen_US
dc.subjectUS Marine Corpsen_US
dc.subjectmilitaryen_US
dc.subjectRiflemanen_US
dc.subjectRifleman's Creeden_US
dc.subjectYellow Footprintsen_US
dc.subjectsymbolicen_US
dc.subjectnonsymbolicen_US
dc.subjectnon-symbolicen_US
dc.thesis.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.titleIN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAININGen_US
ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of Englishen_US
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