The map forms two main conceptual loops that overlap at the point of ideology and discourse. The top loop, including agency, identity, subject position, and rhetorical sovereignty, concerns identities. The lower loop of community, multiplicity, discourse, literacy, and error, concerns communities. In addition, the proximity of each Post-it indicates close relationship between the terms; for example, community is close to rhetorical sovereignty because the two concepts are closely related in that rhetorical sovereignty is located within a community. The loops, in other words, do not constitute the only relationships among the terms.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Stacy, Stephen, and Kat Map the World (of Comp)
The map forms two main conceptual loops that overlap at the point of ideology and discourse. The top loop, including agency, identity, subject position, and rhetorical sovereignty, concerns identities. The lower loop of community, multiplicity, discourse, literacy, and error, concerns communities. In addition, the proximity of each Post-it indicates close relationship between the terms; for example, community is close to rhetorical sovereignty because the two concepts are closely related in that rhetorical sovereignty is located within a community. The loops, in other words, do not constitute the only relationships among the terms.
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The loop of community (multiplicity, discourse, error, literacy, community) addresses a variety of communities defined by the particular contexts, differences, concerns, and/or goals of groups of compositionists. Rhetorical sovereignty for a community is located in agency, identity, and subject position, as well as in discourse and ideology. These concerns also reflect the concerns of the composition community at large, as well as each of its constituent communities. Agency and identity are further from the error and literacy concepts because they can be in competition: if I correct an error in your writing, I risk infringing upon your agency.
ReplyDeleteOur conceptions of community include disciplinarity in the central loop of discourse, rhetorical sovereignty, ideology, and community; insider/outsider implicit in the idea of community (if there are members, there are also nonmembers) and in the concepts of agency, identity, and subject position (one must take upon oneself the agency to become an insider); and replication in that literacy carries the community's culture froward.
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