{"id":1424,"date":"2019-07-09T17:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T21:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2019-07-10T05:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:05:02","slug":"dr-elif-guler-publishes-pioneering-article-in-advances-in-the-history-of-rhetoric-chairs-panel-presents-paper-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/2019\/07\/09\/dr-elif-guler-publishes-pioneering-article-in-advances-in-the-history-of-rhetoric-chairs-panel-presents-paper-in-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Elif Guler publishes pioneering article in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, chairs panel\/presents paper in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Elif Guler, Assistant Professor\u00a0of Professional Writing and Rhetoric with Longwood\u2019s English and Modern Languages Department, recently published an article in\u00a0Advances in the History of Rhetoric<\/em>. The article entitled, \u201cUnderstanding Turkish Rhetoric in the Intertextuality of Two Seminal Texts:\u00a0The Orkhon Inscriptions\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Ataturk\u2019s Nutuk<\/em>\u201d (with I. Goksel, vol. 22 no. 2<\/em>, pp. 194-207<\/a>), constitutes the first study that discusses the characteristics of the Turkish rhetorical tradition. The study examines the ways in which Turkic\/Turkish rhetoric was practiced and conceptualized in two seminal texts from the pre-Islamic and republican periods of the Turkish rhetorical tradition: the Orkhon inscriptions (8th century) and Atat\u00fcrk\u2019s\u00a0Nutuk<\/em>\u00a0(1927). The intertextuality of these texts helps explore their relationships across time and space as well as mediate rhetorical styles and performances in their discourse. By focusing on how rhetoric was produced and understood by Turks \u2013 a group whose history spans centuries since their ancient origins in central Asia, the study contributes to the conversations on a more globalized and inclusive rhetorical praxis.<\/p>\n

Dr. Guler was recently also invited to present a paper and chair a panel–including scholars from Thailand, Serbia, Ukraine, and Colombia–at a conference organized by the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences and\u00a0held from June 23-27 in Copenhagen, Denmark.\u00a0Dr. Guler\u2019s paper entitled,\u00a0\u201cRhetoric for Divine Bliss: The Cultural and Pedagogical Implications of Kut and Tore as the Pillars of Turkish Rhetorical Tradition,\u201d explored some of the major Turkish historical texts’\u00a0teachings on how to use language, explaining the texts\u2019 aim to educate an \u2018ideal rhetorical agent\u2019 who has to study language in order to effectively communicate with and utilize authority and power. The findings suggest that the notions of kut and t\u00f6re underwrite these historical texts (from the 8th and 11th centuries) as the pillars of performing in\/with language. Kut roughly represents a divinely sourced bliss. T\u00f6re refers to a certain set of moral principles that are supposed to guide and govern an individual\u2019s behavior–principles that, when followed, leads to an individual\u2019s eternal bliss and, when violated, might result in his or her demise. Rather than defining rhetoric as \u201cthe moral person speaking,\u201d historical Turkish texts suggest that attaining kut requires subjecting the \u2018tongue\u2019 to a certain rhetorical training which is what ensures one\u2019s morality (proper following of the t\u00f6re). Dr. Guler discussed how such non-Western texts can present us with different sets of rhetorical conventions that raise interesting questions and can provide scholars with various points for critical discussion about how to exercise a moral understanding of rhetorical agency in our quest to advance the civil discourse.<\/p>\n

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Replica of one of the stone monuments constituting the Orkhon inscriptions (located in Ankara, Turkey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Elif Guler, Assistant Professor\u00a0of Professional Writing and Rhetoric with Longwood\u2019s English and Modern Languages Department, recently published an article in\u00a0Advances in the History of Rhetoric. The article entitled, \u201cUnderstanding Turkish Rhetoric in the Intertextuality of Two Seminal Texts:\u00a0The Orkhon Inscriptions\u00a0and\u00a0Ataturk\u2019s Nutuk\u201d (with I. Goksel, vol. 22 no. 2, pp. 194-207), constitutes the first study […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50227,50228],"tags":[428560,243859,60143,428557,43535,378991,379012],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-modern-languages","category-faculty-news-notes","tag-civil-discourse","tag-elif-guler","tag-english-and-modern-languages","tag-professional-writing","tag-rhetoric","tag-turkish-rhetoric","tag-turkish-rhetorical-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.longwood.edu\/ccfnn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}