Rhetorical scholars have long regarded identification as a concept central to Kenneth Burke’s work. However, a close reading of Burke’s work of the 1930s locates the early incarnations of identification in the dialectical relationship between human embodiment and symbolicity. By restoring the complications neglected by a largely symbolic approach to identification through increased attention to the body and the material consequences of symbolicity, a revised understanding of Burkean identification captures more effectively the complex material and symbolic divisions that characterize human social life and prescribes means of negotiating these divisions.

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我们的身体和我们学习的语言：1930 年代伯克式认同的辩证法

修辞学者长期以来一直将认同视为肯尼斯·伯克 (Kenneth Burke) 作品的核心概念。然而，仔细阅读伯克 1930 年代的作品，可以将认同的早期化身定位在人类具身性和象征性之间的辩证关系中。通过增加对身体和象征性的物质后果的关注，恢复在很大程度上被象征性的认同方法所忽视的复杂性，对伯克式认同的修订理解更有效地捕捉了表征人类社会生活的复杂的物质和象征分裂，并规定了谈判的手段这些部门。