Rhetoric

What effects do connotation, bias, and rhetoric have on the author’s argument, and how does it affect the audience? In the editorial “‘Boobies,’ the courts and free speech” by the Times Editorial Board the author uses connotation, bias, and rhetoric to help sway the audience toward believing in their side of the argument. To start off, the author uses connotation a lot in his editorial. These are some examples of those words, “Constitutional rights, wrongly, disrespect, defiance, and…

principle that wisdom is knowing what to do and what not to do. (Waldman, 2015) Plato focused on the nature of rhetoric, he related the human soul as seeking out noble and base nature. Plato described this soul seeking as a constant battle for oneself. (Dimock, 2005)Plato also taught in the form of rhetoric which is a form of persuasion that continues to be taught today. (Genesis, 2015) Rhetoric persuasion is the act of swaying a person’s thinking by giving deceptive…

exemplifies the philosophical differences and debate between Bitzer and Vatz. Bitzer holds the stance that “rhetoric is situational” (3). Rhetoric arises as a result of an ‘exigence’ or urgent problem that the audience can positively affect. The rhetor than gives a fitting response to the situation. In the case of the attacks that occurred in Paris 10 days ago, the ‘exigence’ that created the rhetoric was those attacks. The positive effect would be future prevention of such attacks. The fitting…

I have heard of rhetoric before, but, I was never sure of what it was and to this point I am still iffy of what exactly it is. However, after reading Naming What We Know I feel a little more familiar with it. By what I understood rhetoric is the correct use of language in order to communicate across to an audience effectively. It isn’t about what is written, but how it is written. It’s like the example you, Sam, gave us in class about the proper way to let your neighbor know you killed their dog…

Plato’s novel, The Gorgias, depicts a great discussion regarding Rhetoric, the ability to persuade by means of speech. Although Socrates primarily discusses rhetoric with his interlocutors, it evidently leads to other controversial topics such as: the nature and limits of expertise, nature and convention, hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure) – to name a few. In my justified opinion, the biggest contrast in this novel was the discussion on the nature and limitations of power. Based on the dialogue…

Visual rhetoric in posts modern advertisements portrays products with single logos or those with images that identifies with them, which is a narrow form of analysis, hence need for detailed analysis of advertisements. Various researchers, including Derosa and Batra in 2002, Philips in 2000, and Scotts in 1994, identified learned exposure to visual imagery that enriches the cognitive understanding of pictorial advertisements messages. Philips and McQuarrie applied the same technique in 2004,…

praising Donald Trump in the title of her essay – “The rhetorical brilliance of Trump the demagogue” (Mercieca, 2015), Jennifer Mercieca explores Trump’s rhetorical strategy to rally the American public into supporting him in spite of his offensive rhetoric. Using Donald Trump’s December 7 Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (Trump, 2015) as an example, Mercieca puts forth this essay to explain Trump’s “profound and persistent appeal” (Mercieca, 2015) through demagoguery in his speeches.…

about communication that expanded far past an educational circumstance. Rhetoric…

Duncan wrote, “Burke demands that we become masters of many perspectives in order that we may understand one perspective” (Duncan xv). This statement does a sufficient job of explaining Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism to the casual observer of rhetoric. Today, it is second-nature for all 24-hour cable news channels and most people to take into account several diverse perspectives when dissecting events as trivial as celebrity split-ups to events as profoundly altering as the terrorist…

According to Erika Lindemann, "Rhetoric is a form of reasoning about probabilities, based on assumptions people share as members of a community” (Howard 2010). The use of rhetoric for analysing sentences means that one must consider the nature, the context and its intended audience. The relationship that I will be exploring is the connections that are linked between rhetoric and cultural context, in particular, the railways in both Sydney and in Hong Kong. The social context that I consider my…