Abstract
This article examines rhetorical agency by using advanced bibliometric methods, arguing for a refined approach that recognizes multiple forms of rhetorical agency. By employing methodologies from information science, this study also illuminates often-overlooked infrastructural dynamics among scholars, specifically in how scholarship has materialized and enforced through textual citations. The analysis supplements traditional historical narratives of theory, introducing a dynamic conceptualization of rhetorical agency as an interconnected network. This paper forwards a multifaceted understanding of rhetorical agency, envisioned as comprising at least five intertwined networks. This article consequently provides a novel approach for analyzing disciplinary history by considering how citationality carries material traces of the past.
Keywords
rhetorical agency, rhetorical theory, citation analysis, disciplinarity, disciplinary history, bibliometrics
How to Cite
Johnson, N. R., (2024) “From Turns to Networks: Multiplicity in Rhetorical Agency”, POROI 18(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/2151-2957.33872
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