Self-Fashioning: The Use of Styles as Rhetorical and Political Strategies

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Because style has taken on such an increased significance in our society, it is imperative that communication and rhetorical scholars begin to take a closer look at how it functions. Therefore, this panel will engage the ways that social style operates as both a communicative and rhetorical practice, not only by tracing the historical origins of what has now become a mainstay of our culture, but also by analyzing its social and political implications.

Sub Unit

• Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division

Chair

• Carlnita P Greene, Nazareth College of Rochester

Respondent

• Barry Brummett, Univ of Texas, Austin

Session Organizer

• Carlnita P Greene, Nazareth College of Rochester