Josh received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts and Sciences with a concentration
in Rhetorical Theory from The Pennsylvania State University.
Her dissertation explores the role of mental images
in rhetorical theory from Aristotle through the Second Sophistic.
In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate:
In rhetorical theory (the study of how to persuade), there's a term for what we need in the gun control debate: stasis.
Not exact matches
Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary
theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of
rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either
in opposition to or
in complicity with the power
in place.»
Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors
in its family tree including
rhetorical theory, dramaturgy, and literary criticism.
As for the Eye — Creationists only ever refer to the
rhetorical portion of Darwin's statement
in which he said «to suppose that the eye... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd
in the highest possible degree» — but they never point out that he then went on to describe the evolutionary path of the eye — a
theory which over a hundred years of careful research has confirmed.
On the contrary: his moral philosophy and economic
theory are presented with great
rhetorical mastery,
in consciously crafted phrases and memorable vignettes.
3) «
In short, the contention that CO2 is not a pollutant is a
rhetorical device and is not supported by US law or by economic
theory or studies.»
In short, the contention that CO2 is not a pollutant is a
rhetorical device and is not supported by US law or by economic
theory or studies.
A few examples: Kathryn Stanchi has explored a number of these topics
in depth, such as her influential article that explores social science research on persuasion as applied to how legal advocates should present a court with negative information about their client orposition.21 She and Linda Berger have recently published a textbook combiningtheir interests
in science and persuasion, setting themselves the ambitious goal of «unit [ing] persuasion science with
rhetorical theory and the real - life practice of persuasion.»
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In doing so, they combine insights from both classical and contemporary rhetoricians with lessons from contemporary persuasion science, emphasizing cognitive and social psychology.23 Lucy Jewell has looked at classical
rhetorical categories through the cognitive science lenses of categorization
theory and information processing.
[109] She reviews
rhetorical theory to point out key ideas about how genre works and to combat simplistic notions of genre
in exploring its value for legal - writing pedagogy.