The Idea of Identification

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The Idea of Identification

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Gary C. Woodward - Author

SUNY series in Communication Studies

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Hardcover - 183 pages

Release Date: May 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5819-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5819-8

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 183 pages

Release Date: May 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5820-2
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5820-4

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Summary

Drawing on examples from contemporary life, Woodward explores rhetorical conditions that create powerful moments of identification.

Illustrated with interesting examples drawn from politics and art, The Idea of Identification draws on classical social and rhetorical theories to establish a systematic framework for understanding the varieties and forms of identification. Woodward references a variety of contexts in contemporary life to explore the rhetorical conditions that create powerful and captivating moments. By invoking the influential ideas of Kenneth Burke, George Herbert Mead, Joshua Meyrowitz and others, he shows how the rhetorical process of identification is separate from psychological theories of identity construction. Woodward concludes with an argument that film theory has perhaps offered the most vivid descriptive categories for understanding the bonds of identification.

“Woodward’s description of the conceptual history of identification is concise, his illustrations of identification in action are engaging, and his speculations about the role of identification in our contemporary culture are good initial points for continued discussion on this fundamental rhetorical element.” — The Southern Communication Journal

“Gary C. Woodward’s The Idea of Identification promises a fresh examination of identification that moves beyond Burke’s work to interrogate aspects of the concept previously overlooked and underdeveloped.” — Argumentation and Advocacy

"The book captures the basic idea behind the concept of identification, and then shows how it is central to multiple disciplines and indeed to the humanistic impulse itself. The concept's application and relevance to a wide range of human activities is masterfully explicated here. This book is a pleasure to read." — Vanessa B. Beasley, Southern Methodist University

Gary C. Woodward is Professor of Communication Studies at The College of New Jersey. He is the author of Perspectives on American Political Media; Persuasive Encounters: Case Studies in Constructive Confrontation; and coauthor (with Robert E. Denton Jr.) of Political Communication in America; and Persuasion and Influence in American Life.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Origins of an Idea

2. Conceptualizing Identification: Extensions of a Burkean View

3. Identification, Celebrity, and the Hollywood Film

4. Serenades to the Resistant: Successful Uses of Identification

5. Misidentification and Its Sources

6. Identification and Commitment in Civic Culture

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

Composition and Rhetoric Studies
Communication

41798/41799(PR/JB/)

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