ENGL101B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rhetorical Criticism, Persuasion, Industrial Revolution
5 Oct 2016
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Intended to analyze public speeches for an audience: aristotle: wanted to reconstruct the rhetorical situation. Speaker, why was he giving the speech, who was in the audience. Liked to analyze the immediate audience, speeches in public forms, not an old speech from ages ago. Modern rhetoric, physical audience are not the main audience anymore in the texts we analyze. Rhetorical criticism: an examination of signs and artifacts that appear in texts; signs and artifacts have a persuasive function. Starts 5th century bce with aristotle around 2500 years ago, the emphasis on rhetoric stems from the ability to convince people and running a democracy successfully. Democracy was a fairly new time at the thing, representative government where citizens got a say. Important to them to foster debates where people"s voices were heard. A citizen didn"t include: women, people who didn"t own property, people who weren"t native born.
