The Ideograph Revisted: Political, Cultural, Specialized

• In Event: Communication and Symbolic Interaction

Abstract

Building upon on the “ideograph” as rhetorical theorist Michael Calvin McGee has conceived it (1975; 1980; 2001), I argue that the notion of ideograph can be expanded from politics to culture. I also argue that specialized contexts may be identified in which ideography is at play, but within a particular social group or niche. Here an ideograph can operate on a micro level, and not macro only.

Author

• Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Oakland University