Week three is upon us, school is beginning to get more familiar and homework is starting to get more fun.
For this week we were required to read two articles. One of which was a chapter from the clever book titled Everything's an Argument. The other was called "Murder Rhetorically," by Boyd.
I am going to talk about the chapter on identities in the book Everything's an Argument.
The purpose of rhetoric is to present a character that the audience can trust and relate to. Also rhetoric is designed in relation to creating passionate emissions through rational arguments.
Rhetoric really is an awesome tool for humans. When used correctly, rhetoric can be a weapon that can save lives, change laws, persuade governments, and bring people closer together,
Of course every situation rehires a tailored message based on the audience. For example, talking to kids about eating healthy might sound different compared to talking to a 40-year-old about health issues. One might sound more persuasive, with fun words and playful terms. While the other might sound more formal and directed to a more mature audience.
Also the roles people play can give them credibility on the subjects they are talking about. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think I would take advice about the stock exchange from a 4-year-old kid in elementary school. However I would take their advice on what the best equipment on the playground is, if I was in the industry of designing jungle gyms.
Cool post and great understanding of the readings. It sounds like you have a great grip on what they are saying by Rhetoric. Like we have talked about in class rhetoric can virtually mean anything. In your responses to rhetoric you compare them to situations that effect society specifically in a positive way and that's awesome. I also see that you have a grip on how it can effect things negatively, for instance changing laws. Some might see this a productive and others might see this as a negative depending on the situation and how you view the world. This last paragraph you discuss how people being credible and whom would be credible in a given situation. This can play a big role in how we hear the message the sender is trying to convey. Usually we would not listen to a four year only about the stock market however there may be that one kid who knows nothing but how to operate the stock market. Just something to be mindful of when listening to others.
ReplyDeleteDylan, I like that you start off your blog posts with a little sentence about where we are in the semester and where you are in life kind off – it’s make the read more fun for sure! You explain the meaning of the word rhetoric and how important that is in today’s society. As Travis posted as well, rhetoric can basically mean anything and it is around us all the time without us thinking about it. It is really interesting too talk about this, because in Sweden, talking about rhetoric (I even took a class in so called rhetoric back home) it doesn’t really mean the same thing as what we are talking about in class. It is for sure about how to convey a message to someone and how you present something but a rhetoric class (as they would call it) back in Sweden was more like a Public Speaking class here, without going deeper on what it really means and that it is as important as it is. It was mostly about being a good speaker.
ReplyDeleteSomething that I liked about the readings for this week is how they took the focus away from the speaker/the person giving out the message and put it on the audience instead a little more and how you need to adapt your communication depending on your audience. The audience is whoever is receiving a message pretty much and to explain this I think your example about health and how your communication would differ depending on if you’re talking to a kid or a 40-year –old man was good and easy to understand. However I do want to put in that how you communicate with someone will change based on their social role as well, which we read about in the other reading of this week. How would you talk to a 40-year-old man with health issues if he was a doctor? How would you talk him if he was working at McDonalds? How social roles (your identity), communication and rhetoric work out together is really interesting, and as you said: if you’re doing it right you can really make a change.