Rhetoric

Rhetoric#

Table of Contents#

Resources#

Texts#

  • Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.

  • Richards, Ivor. (1965). The Philosophy of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press.

Figures#

  • [W] Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

  • [W] Benoit, William (1953-)

  • [W] Boghossian, Peter (1966-)

  • [W] Burke, Kenneth (1897-1993)

    • Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.

  • [W] Cicero (106-43 BCE)

  • [W] Corbett, Edward (1919-1998)

  • [W] Curtius, Ernst (1886-1956)

  • [W] Gorgias (483-375 BCE)

  • [W] Gross, Alan (1936-2020)

  • [W] Lunsford, Andrea

  • [W] Protagoras (c. 490-420 BCE)

  • [W] Quintilian (35-100)

  • [W] Rapoport, Anatol (1911-2007)

  • [W] Richards, Ivor (1893-1979)

  • [W] Rogers, Carl (1902-1987)

  • [W] Toulmin, Stephen (1922-2009)

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (2001). Return to Reason.

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (1990). Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity.

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (1988). The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning.

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (1972). Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts.

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (1958). The Uses of Argument.

    • Toulmin, Stephen. (1953). The Philosophy of Science: An Introduction.

  • [W] Whately, Richard (1787-1863)

  • [W] White, James (1938-)

  • [W] Wichelns, Herbert (1894-1973)

Terms#

  • [W] Latin phrases, list

  • [W] Antiphrasis

  • [W] Apophasis αποφασις

  • [W] Euphemism

  • [W] Hyperbole

  • [W] Irony ειρωνεια [feigned ignorance]

  • [W] Litotes

  • [W] Sarcasm

  • [W] Simile

  • [W] Active Listening

  • [W] Antanaclasis [ἀντανάκλασις]

  • [W] Antimetabole

  • [W] Antistrophe [ἀντιστροφή]

  • [W] Argument

  • [W] Argument Map

  • [W] Argumentation (Theory)

  • [W] Argumentation Scheme

  • [W] Argumentum a fortiori [argument from the stronger (reason)]

  • [W] Aristotle’s Poetics

  • [W][S] Aristotle’s Rhetoric

  • [W] Arrangement [dispositio]

  • [W] Audience

  • [W] Audience Analysis

  • [W] Autonomasia

  • [W] Auxesis [αυξησις]

  • [W] Basilikos Logos [βασιλικòς λόγος]

  • [W] Bohm Dialogue

  • [W] Byzantine Rhetoric

  • [W] Canon [κανών]

  • [W] Catacosmesis

  • [W] Chiasmus [χίασμα, χιάζω]

  • [W] Civil Discourse

  • [W] Cognitive Bias Modification

  • [W] Common Topics

  • [W] Communication

  • [W] Conflict Continuum

  • [W] Conflict Resolution

  • [W] Constitutive Rhetoric

  • [W] Conversation Analysis

  • [W] Counter Argument

  • [W] Criticism

  • [W] Defeasible Reasoning

  • [W] Deliberative Rhetoric

  • [W] Delivery [pronuntiatio]

  • [W] Description

  • [W] Dialectic [διαλεκτική]

  • [W] Dialogue [διάλογος]

  • [W] Didacticism [διδακτικός]

  • [W] Discourse Analysis

  • [W] Dissoi Logoi

  • [W] Elocution

  • [W] Empathy [ἐμπάθεια]

  • [W] Encomium [ἐγκώμιον]

  • [W] Enthymeme [ἐνθύμημα]

  • [W] Epideictic Rhetoric

  • [W] Epistemic Humility

  • [W] Eristic

  • [W] Ethos [ηθος]

  • [W] Exposition

  • [W] Expositor

  • [W] Forensic Rhetoric

  • [W] Genre

  • [W] Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)

  • [W] Grounding in communication

  • [W] Group Polarization

  • [W] Heuristic [εὑρίσκω]

  • [W] Invention [inventio]

  • [W] Issue-Based Information System

  • [W] Kairos [καιρός]

  • [W] Language Game

  • [W] Logic and dialectic

  • [W] Logic of Argumentation

  • [W] Logical Reasoning

  • [W] Logos [λόγος]

  • [W] Means of Persuasion

  • [W] Meiosis

  • [W] Memory [memoria]

  • [W] Modern Rhetoric

  • [W] Modes of Persuasion (Rhetorical Appeals) [πιστεις]

  • [W] New Rhetoric

  • [W] Narration

  • [W] Narrator

  • [W] Narrative Exposition

  • [W] Negotation

  • [W] Negotiation Theory

  • [W] Objection

  • [W] Oration

  • [W] Orator

  • [W] Pars construens

  • [W] Pars destruens

  • [W] Pathos [πάθος]

  • [W] Persuasion

  • [W] Philosophy of Dialogue

  • [W] Philosophy of Language

  • [W] Philosophy of Literature

  • [W] Political Argument

  • [W] Politicization of Science

  • [W] Practical Argument

  • [W] Principle of Charity

  • [W] Progymnasmata [προγυμνάσματα]

  • [W] Public Sphere

  • [W] Rationality

  • [W] Reflective Listening

  • [W][S] Religion and Science

  • [W] Rhetor [ῥήτωρ]

  • [W] Rhetoric [ῥητορική]

  • [W] Rhetoric of Identification

  • [W] Rhetoric of Science

  • [W] Rhetorical Device

  • [W] Rhetorical Figure (Figure of Speech)

  • [W] Rhetorical Operation [quadripartita ratio]

  • [W] Rhetorical Mode

  • [W] Rhetorical Reason

  • [W] Rogerian Argument/Rhetoric

  • [W] Scientism

  • [W] Sophist [σοφιστής]

  • [W] Stasis [στάσις]

  • [W] Stophe [στροφή]

  • [W] Style [elocutio]

  • [W] Synchysis

  • [W] theories of rhetoric and composition pedagogy

  • [W] Topos [τόπος; τόπος κοινός; locus communis]

  • [W] Toulmin Argument/Rhetoric

  • [W] Trivium

Notes#

Aristotle’s three elements of philosophy

  • Logic

    • deals in certainties

    • concerned with reasoning to reach scientific certainty

  • Dialectic

    • deals in probabilities

    • a tool for philosophical debate

    • a means for a skilled audience to test probable knowledge in order to learn

  • Rhetoric

    • deals in probabilities

    • a tool for practical debate

    • a means for persuading a general audience based on knowledge instead of upon manipulation and omission

Aristotle’s three means of persuasion

  • Ethos - grounded in credibility

  • Pathos - grounded in the emotions

  • Logos - grounded in reason

Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric

  • Deliberative

  • Forensic

  • Epideictic

Five Canons of Classical Rhetoric

  • Arrangement

  • Delivery

  • Invention

  • Memory

  • Style

Four rhetorical operations of classical rhetoric

  • Addition [adiectio]

  • Omission [detractio]

  • Permutation [immutatio]

  • Transposition [transmutatio]

Trivium

  • Grammar

  • Logic

  • Rhetoric

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