ENGL309C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Semiotics, Simulacrum, Petrus Ramus
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Basically, rhetoric includes words, images, and gestures presented to an audience for some kind of purpose. Rhetoric is usually thought to include the content of those words, images, and gestures as well as the style or form in which they are presented (borchers, 5). Rhetoric: the use of language and other symbolic systems to make sense of our experiences, construct our personal and collective identities, produce meaning, and prompt action in the world (borchers, 24) After the revolution of 465 bc overthrew the dictator, democracy was established. Questions of property claims had to be established by persuasion of individual claimants in courts of justice, so systematic instruction was established by corax. After establishment in syracuse, there was a rise of class of teachers: first, sophists situational truths; emphasized concentrating on social needs (i. e. not some higher theoretical ideal, then, idealists greeks (socrates, plato, aristotle) and romans (cicero) universal truth.
