Group members (that I can remember - sorry if I forgot your name!): Drea Fetchik, Megan Tilley, Christopher and one other member
Rhetoric is the use of grammatically correct, persuasive discourse in order to inspire or motivate positive change, and/or influence the audience to comply with the rhetor's point of view.
Thanks Megan. It's interesting that your group qualified 'discourse' with 'grammatically correct.' What kinds of discussions did you all as a group (anyone can answer this, not just Megan) have about including that particular qualifier? In other words, why does discourse have to be grammatically correct to be rhetoric?
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ReplyDeleteMy group had similar concepts like the aspect of change that your group mentioned as well. We linked this concept of change to persuasion, much like your group linked it to motivating positive change. On a different note, we mentioned that the rhetor's message was directed towards a specific audience or "special interest group.
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ReplyDeleteThis definition of rhetoric is very similar to our groups definition. "How the audience interprets the situation is based on how the speaker constructs the language of his argument". One of the differences, however, is that this definition points out that rhetoric is not only an altered interpretation but an inspiration/motivation from the speaker fueling the audience's renewed perspective. It also mentions not only the motivation for the audience to comply with the speakers POV, but also possibly to inspire a "positive change".
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This definition of rhetoric is similar to our groups in that they both shed some light on the rhetor's structure of the rhetoric in order to persuade an audience. Although we don't necessarily apply "grammatically correct" to the formation of the argument, our definition did embody that "persuasive discourse" is needed.
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