COMM 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pathos, Socratic Method, Manuscript Culture
7 Apr 2017
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Audre lorde - the difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children: 1978, answer to police shooting of an african american child, killing yourself poetry, killing your children rhetoric. Involves the proper interpretation, construction, and use of supporting materials to back assertions and gain audience acceptance. Kuyper"s and king"s definition: the strategic use of communication, oral or written, to achieve specifiable goals: strategic nature: we intentionally choose which symbols to use to communicate. Intention: what we"re trying to accomplish, realm of rhetoric. Impression: how we"re trying to accomplish it, realm of poetry. Long green scantron for exams: epic eloquence, whatever we said was true because of the gods, no rhetoric, whoever had higher power spoke the truth , birth of rhetoric, something we can teach/learn, gorgias, father of sophists. If god did not tell paris to kidnap her but he did it is his fault.
