COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Grammatical Person, Pope Francis, Pathos

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Dale Herbeck

Document Summary

Lecture notes rhetorical communication: rhetoric is essential to a vital democracy, rhetoric helps people seeks justice and call attention to their cause, rhetoric helps people clarity their own beliefs and attitudes, advantages of studying rhetoric: Improved communication skills: rhetorical critic an informed consumer of rhetorical discourse. History of rhetoric: the first communication professors, the sophists, taught persuasive speaking skills in the greek city-state, plato famously denounced the sophists and their approach to teaching rhetoric. Plato believed in objective truth, so he did not agree with the idea of rhetoric. The rhetor: rhetoric"s point of origin: a rhetor is a speaker (an can be a person, corporation, and organization, or even the government), according to aristotle, rhetors offer two types of proofs: Inartistic proofs are things which are there: facts, statistics, documents, contracts, etc. Artistic proofs are things which the speaker creates in the audience.