ENG 720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialectic, Epideictic
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Argumentation acts upon an audience to modify convictions or dispositions. Tries to gain a meeting of minds. Audience isn"t necessarily made up of those the speaker addresses explicitly. Audience of 1 or 2 can use dialectic to clarify a topic. Different disciplines adhere to standards that are unique to their interests. A universal audience is addressed through reason. Discourse for a speci c audience aims to persuade. Discourse for a universal audience aims to convince. For perelman, the epideictic genre intensi es adherence to values. In our modern world, most of our text is epideictic . The way in which arguments are presented is crucial.
