Rhetorics of Names and Naming (Paperback)

Introduction: Toward a Rhetorical Onomastics Star Medzerian Vanguri  SECTION 1: Performing Identity  1 Composing Place, Composing Las Vegas Cydney Alexis, Scot Barnett, and Eric Leake  2 From "Big Time" to "Turd Blossom": George W. Bush and the Rhetoric of the Political Sobriquet Jason Thompson  3 Nominal Blackness Lisa Woolfork  4 "Mononymous" Dickens: The Named and Unnamed in Household Words Christine DeVinne  SECTION 2: Reinforcing Hegemony  5 Understanding the Life Narratives of Immigrants through Naming Practices Angela Clark-Oates, Duane Roen, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson  6 "Don’t Say Drone": Hits and Misses in a Rhetorical Project of Naming Robin Shoaps and Sarah Stanley  7 Crimean (Tatar): Resisting a Deportation of Identity  Christian Berry  8 The Female Frankenstein: Naming Practices Constructing What It Means to Be a "Woman" Jessica Rose Corey  SECTION 3: Creating Public Memory  9 Social Movement Names and Global Frames Tim Jensen  10 Eponymous Elixirs: Mrs. Pinkham, Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicines, and the Rhetoric of Naming Elizabeth Lowry  11 The Genome, the Meme, and the Teme Go off the Map: Observing Naming, Metaphor, and Circulation in Three Contested Terms David Bedsole  12 #Jan25: The Naming of an Event Katherine Bridgman