COMM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Rhetorics
8 Sep 2016
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Argument: discussion, 2 opinions (not the same), persuade you, support evidence (facts), conflict. : money, values, religion, belief, morality, economy, politics, fault, right, free will Fight: emotional, accept other"s position, clash vs. attack. Communicat: means to share( root of the english words commune, common, communicate) Communicate means to share meaning or to make common meaning . Communication seek to bridge the looming abyss between self and others. Athenian democracy: argument brings us together as a society; brings us together because we participate in shaping the future of the commons. Public assembly: agora was a physical place of public assembly. Citizens had the right to speak in the agora or the assembly. Public speaking ruled the day in athenian courts. Argumentum: a demonstration, proof, or exchange of reason. A proposition is a statement that contains a subject and a predicate and is true/false. Argument is central to the public sphere. Chiam perelman, lours olbrechts, tyteca- new rhetoric .
