Rhetoric

Question 1

Rhetoric

Answer 1

Art of persuasion

Question 2

Practical vs. Critical

Answer 2

P: How to speak and write effectively to move your audience
C: to understand how communication impacts society, politics, and culture

Question 3

Aristotle

Answer 3

Rhetoric is using the available means to persuasion to help people understand truth
-Speaker centered

Question 4

Burke

Answer 4

Dramatism, Rhetoric is drama, audience centered

Question 5

Identification

Answer 5

Recognized common ground between speaker and audience used to overcome differences in how they think the world works
-similarities, (audience adaptation)

Question 6

Burke vs. Atistotle

Answer 6

• less centered with speaker intent and persuasion
• more concerned with how speaker identifies with audience and vice versa
• the job of the critic is to figure out speakers motives

Question 7

Dramatistic Pentad

Answer 7

How the communicator tries to get the audiece to accept his or her view of reality or true, which shows speakers motives

• Act: what was done (commitment to realism)
• Scene: context in which act was performed (downplays free will, situation determinism)
• Agent: personal or people who performed the act (assumes free will choice, personal responsibility)
• Agency: means thae agent used to act (pragmatism, “get-the-job-done” attitude)
• Purpose: stated or iplied goal of the address (desire for unity and meaning in life)

Question 8

Termistic screen

Answer 8

Words construct reality, dictate interpreations of life’s drama

Question 9

God Terms

Answer 9

Word a speaker sets to which all other positive words are subservient

Question 10

Devil Terms

Answer 10

Word a speaker uses that sums up all that is regaded as bad, wrong, or evil

Question 11

Fisher: Narrative paradigm

Answer 11

• rhetoric provides shared context where speaker and audience both live
• communication as stories
• responds to rational-world paradigm

Question 12

Rational-world paradigm

Answer 12

-Scientific or philosphical approach to knowledge that assumes people are logical, making decisions on the basis of evidence and lines or argument

Question 13

Performance

Answer 13

-“activity of an individaul which occurs during a period marked by his continuous presence before a particular set of observers and which has some influece on the observers”

Question 14

Sincere Performer

Answer 14

-Performance where performer is convinced by their own act

Question 15

Cynical perfomer

Answer 15

You know you are putting on an act