Rhetorical Listening

“Rhetorical listening” helps listeners analyze competing perspectives, communicate about difficult topics and imagine — when possible — win-win solutions. It invites listeners to move from a dysfunctional silence to an open stance wherein people willingly position themselves to recognize that a problem exists for someone; to critique how it functions for others as well as themselves; and to reflect on their own accountability. When listening to completing claims about race in the U.S., for example, it is important to think about the cultural perspectives from which they are being produced and heard — such as white supremacy, “colorblindness,” multiculturalism and critical race studies (to name a few).

Interactive virtual workshop facilitated by Dr. Krista Ratcliffe, professor and Chair of ASU English Department, and author of Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms).

Project Humanities

Department of English

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