Berthoff, Ann E. “Sapir and the Two Tasks of Language.” Semiotica, vol. 71, no. 1/2, Sept. 1988, pp. 1-47.
Preface to Rickert’s Ambient Rhetoric (pt. 2)
xii: “We cannot attend to what is salient concerning materiality without necessarily also extending our sweep to the ambient environms and the numerous objects therein, all fo which help scaffold our ability to generate what is salient. In other words, ambience takes on the order of a medium (not mediator), as Jen-Paul Thibaud argues, being a necessary constintuent of percpetion, thought, and action [AND THE SIGN] and therefore influencing the shape , direction, or ‘style’ in which they issue forth (10).” ***This is Berthoff & Montessori (less so Freire?) Is “attending to ambiance” = to crafting an environment? I think I can argue that it is TO SOME EXTENT, but an important one. The one we can control (a bit).
Preface to Rickert’s Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being (pt. I)
Okay… my fellow students… I’m telling you now that there is no way you can know what you need to know before you need to know it. In a meeting with Fearless Leader One, talking about how I have the seeds of three different chapters in my first chapter draft, they drop the name of Thomas Rickert, as though I’ve read Rickert, which I haven’t. Like, we’re talking introduction material—Why Berthoff now?—and they’re like… When we’re turning to Rickert and conversations about object oriented ontology…as though this theory and perspective is new… we are missing a gem from our own theorist/practitioner, AEB, whose praxis accounts for much of what Rickert argues is a “new rhetoric” (well, new as of 2003). So I’m reading Ambient Rhetoric and smacking my palm against my forehead. There is Montessori. There is Berthoff. There. And there. How had I not known about this book? I’ve read Latour. I’ve read Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition, and Rickert has a chapter in that interesting volume (“The Whole of the Moon: Latour, Context, and the Problem of Holism”). And yet… I didn’t make the connections. Until now. Now watch me read the preface and intro of Ambient Rhetoric and Berthoffize it…
Larson & Lauer
Lauer, Janice. Invention in Rhetoric and Composition. “Issues Over the Nature, Purpose, and Epistemology of Rhetorical Invention in the Twentieth Century.” Charles Bazerman, editor. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, the WAC clearinghouse, 2004.
Lauer, Janice M. Invention in Rhetoric and Composition. West Lafayette, Ind. : Parlor Press ; [Fort Collins, Colo.] : WAC Clearinghouse, c2004., 2004. Reference guides to rhetoric and composition. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.gsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat05756a&AN=gsu.9920557593402952&site=eds-live&scope=site.