COMM1010 Lecture Notes - Init
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We want people to be bale to discuss openly when they don"t see eye to eye: concerns regarding rhetoric, we have tied disagreement with someone"s views as not liking one"s personality, disagreement is necessary for a vibrant society c, people only choose to hang out with people that they agree with (cid:224) creates. 2: when rhetoric fails or isn"t even attempted violence ensues, rhetoric is the way to prevent violence (talking way out of fights, communicate instead of punch, definition of rhetoric, single definition perspective theorized by bryant (1953, rhetoric is instrumental (a tool we to accomplish stuff, rhetoric is literary (interested in the function of language, rhetoric is philosophical (interested in why we think the things we think, rhetoric is social (manages the behavior of humans more so than anything else, systems perspective ehniger (1968), rhetoric is culture and time bound, classical rhetoric (interested in rhetoric originating in greece and.
