Rhetorics of Names and Naming

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