COMS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enthymeme, Syllogism, Epideictic
5 Apr 2016
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A method or art of discourse that seeks to persuade, inform, or moivate an audience. As a tool used by lawyers and poliicians to skew and alter realies in atempt to persuade people. He thinks rhetoric can be used in a healthy way to encourage and inspire posiive change. Truth has a moral superiority that make it more acceptable to than falsehood. Three main components of rhetorical analysis: speaker, the speech, the audience. Persuasion what the speaker is saying is probably true. On-to-many forms of communicaion not about a dialogue. Known truth demonstrates truth that is already known. Probability not absolutes the likelihood of outcomes and situaions. Judicial or forensic: speaking about the past: guilt, or innocence. Usually used by lawyers: poliical or deliberaive, atempt to inluence future police by persuading votes or legislatures, ceremonial or epideicic, to praise or blame another for the beneit of the spectators.
