COMM 2064 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Odysseus, Dialectic, Parrhesia
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Logos ( word or idea ) dialektike ( dialectic ) rhetorike: greek feminine adjective. The faculty of observing in any given situation all of the available means of persuasion. The art of adjusting ideas to people and people to ideas. A means of so ordering discourse as to produce an effect on the listener or reader. The use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols. The evolution of practical methods for advocacy (e. g. public speaking, legal argument, letter-writing, and web pages) The debate about the relationship of rhetoric to other form of human inquiry (e. g. religion, ethics, science, and law) Refelctions on the relationship among: thought communicaiton reality. Emphasizes: importance of studying texts carefully, importance of studying the past, importance of free speech and civic partcipation. Comunication: a process of exchange in which sender and receiver,
