COMM 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rhetorical Situation, Isocrates, Kairos

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1130
• Professor: David Supp- Mon

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Rhetoric, here there, and everywhere 8/24/2016 12:05:00 am. The craft of research-wayne booth textbook (optional but recommended) Used to point out the artificialness of someone"s speech. Rhetoric can be lobbed as an insult. Art of persuading others skill-based activity/behavior. Rhetoric how you communicate, instructions for communication in effective ways to sway hearts/minds of people: since aristotle, public messages, making messages based on non-intimate knowledge of others. Power of communication how it shapes the world. Celebrated: needed for democracy, good examples of rhetoric are celebrated to a religious level. Lambasted: better you are at rhetoric, the less trusted you are: we want politicians who speak from the heart rather than politicians who have carefully craftd messages. L2: rhetoric as symbolic action 8/25/168/24/2016 12:05:00 am. As a symbolic action: broader way of conceiving symbols, what you get to do with the concepts, more that can be done with the concepts of rhetoric, can make more ethical decisions.