LINGUIST 2E03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Franz Mesmer, Paul Grice, New Rhetorics

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 2E03
• Professor: Magda Stroinska

Document Summary

The art of effective speech or the art of persuasion. Often comes with a negative connotation, associations that are negative. Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing. It is also the art of persuasion and many other things. Being an effective speaker may serve wrong causes able to convince you or persuade you to do things. Rhetoric: definitions: the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively, skill is using language effectively and persuasively. Language that is elaborate, pretentions, insincere, or intellectually vacuous: may be contradictory or have no serious content but still get away with it if they present it well, skill of producing elaborate and empty language is one. Lyceum was a gymnasium in classical athens dedicated to apollo lyceum. It was also the location of the peripatetic school founded by aristotle. The school of athens peripatetic people didn"t sit and listen they walked and talked and learned.