Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines how digital annotation functions as an affordance for rhetorical listening in audiovisual archives. Drawing on Caroline Levine’s theory of affordances and Krista Ratcliffe’s concept of rhetorical listening, we argue that annotations reconfigure listening as an inventive and relational process that offers new directions for sonic engagement. Focusing on three case studies—Anne Sexton, Roy Kiyooka, and Muriel Rukeyser—we illustrate how marked sound can foster cross-cultural rhetorical exchange and create new ways to listen in digital environments. In these case studies, rhetorical listening is accomplished through the use of AVAnnotate, a minimal computing application that enables users to create, publish, and circulate time-stamped annotations and develop new possibilities for interpretive invention across audio and video recordings.
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqaf129
Authors: Tanya Clement, Trent Wintermeier
Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Language: English
Topic: Sound Studies and Aurality
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4416731882