This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.
| ISBN: | 9781138599574 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2018 |
| Author: | Star Medzerian Vanguri |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication |
| Genres: |
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Communication studies Media studies Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Communication studies |