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General Ideas about Rhetoric I. The definition & understanding of rhetoric A. Dictionary definition: the art of using words【T1】
General Ideas about Rhetoric I. The definition & understanding of rhetoric A. Dictionary definition: the art of using words【T1】
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2018-05-24
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General Ideas about Rhetoric
I. The definition & understanding of rhetoric
A. Dictionary definition: the art of using words【T1】______【T1】______
in speaking or writing
B. The definition in this lecture:
— the art of harnessing【T2】______, etc., through language【T2】______
— the persuasion and convincing of an audience
a)to act
b)to【T3】______【T3】______
c)to identify with given values
C. Rhetoric in political events: to manipulate II. Rhetoric in history
A. In Ancient【T4】______【T4】______
— a use of words
— a【T5】______ of words【T5】______
B. Aristotle’s discussion on rhetoric as a means of【T6】______【T6】______
— an appeal to【T7】______【T7】______
— an appeal to the character of the speaker
C. In the Middle Ages: being one of the main subjects of the
【T8】______【T8】______
D. In the Renaissance: the application of
rhetorical principles to【T9】______【T9】______
III. Later development of rhetoric
A Negative【T10】______ were taken on【T10】______
— a focus on the words themselves
— ignore intonations or large, bold type
B. In an English class, one is encouraged to【T11】______【T11】______
— how the words were【T12】______【T12】______
— how the way they were laid out on the
page might【T13】______the meaning of the text【T13】______
C. New definition of rhetoric today
— the proficiency in the use of language
— the knowledge of how to use graphic and other elements
to【T14】______the verbal meaning of a message【T14】______
D. Rhetoric of【T15】______【T15】______
— the coordination of words with other nonverbal elements
— purpose: the effective use of language
【T7】
General Ideas about Rhetoric
Good morning. Today our lecture will focus on the rhetoric. First of all, what is the rhetoric. According to the dictionary, rhetoric refers to the art of using words effectively in speaking or writing: especially, now, the art of prose composition. Although there are many different definitions about rhetoric, in this lecture we consider rhetoric as the art of harnessing reason, emotions and authority, through language, with a view to persuade an audience and, by persuading, to convince this audience to act, to pass judgment or to identify with given values.
However, nowadays, the word "rhetoric" often has negative connotations. If we say of a politician’s speech that it was just "rhetoric," we mean that it sounded good but it didn’t really say anything important. We might even mean that it was manipulative—it used language in a slick way to get us to agree with something we wouldn’t otherwise agree with.
But it wasn’t always so. In fact, for much of Western history, "rhetoric" was considered very important. From ancient Greece through the Middle Ages in Europe, rhetorical skill was prized as a way of succeeding in life. As with so many other founding principles of our culture, our understanding of rhetoric derives from the fifth century B.C. in Athens, Greece. Many thinkers talked about and wrote about the importance of rhetoric. The word implied a use of words, even a manipulation of words. The emphasis was on oratory, that is public speaking, since at that time writing was difficult and limited mostly to public records. The primary mode of expression was oral. At this time it was even common for people not to trust writing. Plato, for example, said that it gave people the appearance of knowing something when they didn’t really know it. Aristotle was the philosopher who first discussed rhetoric in detail. Much of what he said is still useful today. According to him, rhetoric was one of the many available means of persuasion. People could also be persuaded by an appeal to emotions or to the character of the speaker, for example.
The ancient Greeks discussed the different aspects of rhetoric—such as how to find topics, how to organize the information, how to remember the points of the speech, how to gesture, etc. In the Middle Ages rhetoric was one of the main subjects of the curriculum. Skill in public speaking or written discourse were the major ways for someone to get ahead in the courts, the forum and the church. In the Renaissance, after the invention of printing, rhetorical principles were applied on a large scale to written discourse. But since books were scarce, teaching was done by "lecture," which meant reading aloud from a book so that the students could make their own copies.
Despite its beginnings, over time "rhetoric" came to take on negative connotations, as mere ornamentation or worse—manipulation. As printed books became more common, people started looking at the printed language as somehow more trustworthy than spoken language. And teachers of "English" tried to focus on the words themselves, without reference to how they might be spoken or how they might be arranged on this page. It supposedly made no difference how the words were printed. The meaning was supposed to be the same. Whatever might have gone along with the words, whether it be gestures or intonations, or large, bold type, was largely ignored or treated as mere ornamentation Probably when you took an English class, composition or even literature, you were encouraged to disregard everything except the words themselves. You were encouraged not to look at the words, but through them to the meaning. You were not encouraged to think about how the way the words were pronounced or the way they were laid out on the page might influence the meaning of the text. But today with the advent of computers, the prevalence of desktop publishing and the almost universal creation of web pages, people are starting to pay attention again to what had been ignored, namely what accompanies the words themselves. Today being "literate" no longer means just being proficient in the use of language. It is now important for us to know how to use graphics and other elements to reinforce the verbal meaning of a message or to contribute to a different meaning. It is becoming common today to talk of the "rhetoric" of visual art—the means at its disposal to contribute to meaning. This doesn’t mean that we can pay any less attention to language. In fact, since we will be using fewer words and coordinating those words with visual and other nonverbal elements, it is important that we use language as effectively as possible.
To sum up what we have discussed today, in this lecture, we mainly concentrated on the development and evolution of rhetoric. After that, we have presented you with the underlying reasons of why people are beginning to pay attention to rhetoric again nowadays. I hope at this time with the overwhelmed computer power, this would recall people’s attention on the correct use of language and the polishing of their words. One of the aims of this mini-lecture is to encourage you to pay attention to what surrounds, supports and modifies verbal meaning.
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emotions
解析
讲座提到,人们也可以被情感吸引,也会被说话者的性格吸引。填入录音原词emotions即可。
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