Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a "Code of Cross-Cultural Conduct"

Ratcliffe, Krista

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“…For the second vicious loop, we have argued that adherence to rhetorical ambiguity perpetuates identification tensions. Thus, we argue that a shift toward a listening rhetoric (Ratcliffe, 1999, 2005) is necessary to engage and transcend the tensions between an aspired joint understanding of CSR and opposing situated interpretations.…”

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Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric

2019

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Scholars are divided over the question of whether managerial aspirational talk that contradicts current business practices can contribute to corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this conceptual article, we explore the rhetorical dynamics of aspirational talk that either impede or foster CSR. We argue that self-persuasive CSR rhetoric, as one enactment of aspirational talk, can attract attention and scrutiny from organizational members. Continued adherence to this rhetoric, however, creates and perpetuates tensions that lead to a vicious circle of disengagement. A virtuous circle, by contrast, requires a shift toward an agonistic rhetoric that transcends tensions by rearticulating aspirations in concurrence with situated understandings of responsible corporate practice. Our arguments contribute to a better understanding of how communication becomes constitutive of CSR and address the debate on decoupling between talk and action.

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Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric

2019

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“…88 When we listen rhetorically, as Krista Ratcliffe suggests, we open ourselves to possibilities, and in so doing, we open ourselves to others. 89 However, while rhetorical scholars have emphasized the interactive and social nature of the act of listening and the ethical relations and political action it entails, the capacity to listen is often implied to be the property of the individual, who chooses whether or not to exercise it.…”

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The Limits of Persuasion: Rhetoric and Resistance in the Last Battle of the Korean War

Johnson¹

2014

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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This essay explores the case of twenty-three American POWs who refused to return to the United States at the end of the Korean War. It first highlights the role of resistance in liberal rhetorical theory and then uses resistance as a lens to analyze public discourse about the incident. Looking closely at the three most common explanations for the soldiers' turning (youth, impairment, and brainwashing), the essay shows how the debate over the nonrepatriates was fundamentally a controversy over the limits of persuasion.

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“…The Icebreaker is at once constrained by its environment (indoor/outdoor, summer/winter, and so on) at the same time as it exceeds it through evoking other landscapes and/or everyday experiences of ice and water. The practices of environmental listening employed and promoted in the work resonate with the listening strategies of soundscape studies (Westerkamp 2002; Arkette 2004; McCartney 2004; Helmi 2006) as well as other articulations such as Goldstein’s holistic listening (1988) and Ratcliffe’s rhetorical listening (1999).…”

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The Icebreaker: Soundscape works as everyday sound art

Chapman¹

2009

Org. Sound

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The following discusses the potential of soundscape work to reveal new aspects of our everyday aural environments. Openness to the voice(s) of one's sonic surroundings is maintained as a hallmark of soundscape works, and also a key component of sound art more generally. Different perspectives and questions are articulated, with a consistent focus on the variety of spaces engaged by both sound(scape) artists and listeners. A case study is presented-a recently initiated sound art project on the part of the author entitled The Icebreaker. The latter is a musical instrument, performance piece and interactive installation made from piezo microphones and ice. Prepared compositions, including soundscape works, are diffused at different moments when one 'plays' The Icebreaker. I describe this emergent work as an example of the sort of considerations and negotiations that are at the heart of soundscape/sound art composition. My aim is to demonstrate how sound artworks bring us to attend to sounds we formerly failed to notice, revealing our own reactions to these stimuli at the same time.

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Rhetorical Listening: A Trope for Interpretive Invention and a "Code of Cross-Cultural Conduct"

Cited by 84 publications

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Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric

Vicious and Virtuous Circles of Aspirational Talk: From Self-Persuasive to Agonistic CSR Rhetoric

The Limits of Persuasion: Rhetoric and Resistance in the Last Battle of the Korean War

The Icebreaker: Soundscape works as everyday sound art

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