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This paper offers an analysis of how plastic surgeons make embodied arguments. Specifically, I seek to demonstrate that visible activities may function as part of the interactive structure of an "argument"; that, embodied actions can be forms of arguments. To support this claim, the paper analyzes naturally occurring interaction between plastic surgeons and patients seeking to alter their bodily landscape. Using AIDA (Tracy, 2005) and microethnography (Streeck & Mehus, 2005) as methodological-theoretical lenses, the essay challenges the assumption that making an argument solely is a discursive activity. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
