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Book The Effects of Rhetorical Questions  Argument Placement  Opportunity for Thought  and Argument Strength on the Evaluation of Persuasive Communications

Download or read book The Effects of Rhetorical Questions Argument Placement Opportunity for Thought and Argument Strength on the Evaluation of Persuasive Communications written by Carolyn Best and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Persuasion in Your Life

Download or read book Persuasion in Your Life written by Shawn T. Wahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible introductory textbook in persuasive communication speaks directly to the student by focusing on real-life experiences in personal, social, and professional contexts. Through its use of rhetoric, criticism, and social scientific research, this book helps readers understand, analyze, and use persuasion in their lives and careers. It explores techniques of verbal and visual persuasion for use in business and professional communication, health communication, and everyday life, as well as expanded coverage of persuasion in social movements and social advocacy. It also pays attention throughout to ethical considerations and to the significance of new media. This textbook is a student-friendly introduction suitable for use in undergraduate courses in persuasion, health communication, and business communication. The companion website includes an instructor’s manual with test questions, sample assignments, web links, and other resources, as well as PowerPoint slides. Visit www.routledge.com/wahl

Book Communication and Emotion

Download or read book Communication and Emotion written by Jennings Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-14 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection serves two important functions: it synthesizes theory and research in the vital and vibrant area of communication and emotion, and it highlights the scholarly work and contributions of Dolf Zillmann, the preeminent contributor to this area of inquiry. As one of the most productive and influential scholars in the annals of communication inquiry, Zillmann is well known for his contributions in the areas of communication, emotion, media effects, and aggression. Editors Jennings Bryant, David Roskos-Ewoldsen, and Joanne Cantor have collected groundbreaking essays from scholars active in the field, all of whom studied under or worked with Zillmann during his exemplary career. The contributions included here acknowledge the significance of Zillmann's work and identify many of the intellectual streams that contributed to his scholarship. Utilizing both psychology and communication perspectives, this volume covers the current literature in communication and emotion, with a focus on key theories, media effects, and entertainment theory. As a comprehensive synthesis of theory and research in communication and emotion, it will be of great interest to scholars in communication theory, cognitive and social psychology, and psychophysiology. With a concluding state-of-the-art chapter by Dolf Zillmann himself, this volume offers a thorough and distinctive examination of communication and emotion scholarship, and it will serve as an invaluable resource for current and future generations of scholars.

Book Critical Questions in Persuasion Research

Download or read book Critical Questions in Persuasion Research written by Franklin J. Boster and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Questions in Persuasion Research presents students with a refreshing way to study persuasion, communication theory, and human behavior. Rather than examining different types of persuasion research and reviewing each one at a time, communication scholars Franklin J. Boster and Christopher J. Carpenter explore eight key controversies, as well as research and theory related to each topic: - What constitutes a strong persuasive message, and does it matter? - How do we adapt persuasive messages to diverse audiences? - Do persuasive messages have side effects? - How can we manage the buzz? - How can we maintain attitude change? - Can a persuasive message be counterproductive? - How can we encourage resistance to persuasion? - To what extent does action follow from attitudes? By focusing on how various disciplines deal with the big controversies in the persuasion process, students gain an understanding not only of key ideas and theories, but how the ideas and theories fit together in a meaningful whole. By framing persuasion as a series of critical questions, students learn that social science is a dynamic and exciting way in which to study persuasion. Critical Questions in Persuasion Research is an ideal textbook for courses with focus on persuasion, communication, and human behavior.

Book Persuasion in Society

Download or read book Persuasion in Society written by Jean G. Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasion in Society, Third Edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving rhetorical, critical theory, and social science traditions. This text examines current and classical theory through the lens of contemporary culture, encouraging readers to explore the nature of persuasion and to understand its impact in their lives. Employing a contemporary approach, authors Jean G. Jones and Herbert W. Simons draw from popular culture, mass media, and social media to help readers become informed creators and consumers of persuasive messages. This introductory persuasion text offers: A broad-based approach to the scope of persuasion, expanding students’ understanding of what persuasion is and how it is effected. Insights on the diversity of persuasion in action, through such contexts as advertising, marketing, political campaigns, activism and social movements, and negotiation in social conflicts. The inclusion of "sender" and "receiver" perspectives, enhancing understanding of persuasion in practice. Extended treatment of the ethics of persuasion, featuring opposing views on handling controversial issues in the college classroom for enhanced instruction. Case studies showing how and why people fall for persuasive messages, demonstrating how persuasion works at a cognitive level. Discussion questions, exercises, and key terms for very nearly every chapter. The core of this book is that persuasion is about winning beliefs and not arguments and that communicators who want to win that belief need to communicate with their audiences. This new edition of Persuasion in Society continues to bring this core message to readers with updated case studies, examples, and sources.

Book Beyond Rhetorical Questions

Download or read book Beyond Rhetorical Questions written by Irene Koshik and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news interviews, and second language writing conferences. The questions are used across these widely different contexts to perform a number of related social actions such as accusations, challenges to prior turns, and complaints. Those used in institution settings, such as teacher-student conferences, orient to institutional norms and roles and can help accomplish institutional goals, e.g., eliciting student error correction. Both the interactional context in which these questions are embedded and the known epistemic authority of the questioner play a role in our understanding of these questions, i.e., what social actions the question is accomplishing in a particular interaction.

Book Communication and Persuasion

Download or read book Communication and Persuasion written by Richard E. Petty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been over 10 years since we initiated work on our first series of collaborative experiments. As graduate students, we had great fun planning, conducting, and writing this research (Petty & Cacioppo, 1977). We enjoyed arguing with each other at our initial meeting in 1973 and have sub sequently become best friends, but neither of us suspected at the time that we would or could actively maintain a research collaboration over the next decade, or that we would now find ourselves in a position to write this monograph. As we note in Chapter 1, we began our studies of persuasion at a time when social psychology was in "crisis," and interest in research on attitude change in particular was declining. As we write this, we are aware of six new volumes on persuasion that are in press or in preparation and that should appear over the next few years. In retrospect, it is not so surprising that research on attitudes and persuasion would reemerge as a central concern of social psychology. We believe that human feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, whether in the domain of interpersonal relations (e. g. , marriage, aggression), politics (e. g. , voting, revolution), health (e. g. , following a medical regimen), or economics (e. g. , consumer purchases) are greatly influenced by the evaluations people have of other people, objects, and issues. Furthermore, evaluations (attitudes) are influenced by affect, cognition, and behavior.

Book The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke

Download or read book The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke written by Leonard Cox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the world of rhetoric through the timeless work of Leonard Cox. In his groundbreaking opus, 'The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke', Cox unveils a guide to the art of persuasion. His work marks the first rhetoric book in English, bridging the gap between classical teachings and a wider readership. Whether intended for lawyers or as a valuable schoolbook, 'The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke' remains a treasured cornerstone of rhetorical studies.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Persuasion written by Jeanne Fahnestock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a wide-ranging, authoritative, and cutting-edge overview of language and persuasion. Featuring a range of international contributors, the handbook outlines the basic materials of linguistic persuasion – sound, words, syntax, and discourse – and the rhetorical basics that they enable, such as appeals, argument schemes, arrangement strategies, and accommodation devices. After a comprehensive introduction that brings together the elements of linguistics and the vectors of rhetoric, the handbook is divided into six parts. Part I covers the basic rhetorical appeals to character, the emotions, argument schemes, and types of issues that constitute persuasion. Part II covers the enduring effects of persuasive language, from humor to polarization, while a special group of chapters in Part III examines figures of speech and their rhetorical uses. In Part IV, contributors focus on different fields and genres of argument as entry points for research into conventions of arguing. Part V examines the evolutionary and developmental roots of persuasive language, and Part VI highlights new computational methods of language analysis. This handbook is essential reading for those researching and studying persuasive language in the fields of linguistics, rhetoric, argumentation, communication, discourse studies, political science, psychology, digital studies, mass media, and journalism.

Book Rhetoric

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mayte Carvalho
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Rhetoric written by Mayte Carvalho and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: Rhetoric: Practical guide on rhetoric and persuasive communication for your personal and professional life Do you want to have more protagonism, active voice, and the ability to influence decisions in your life? This best seller is a work to be consulted for life...Before job interviews, presentations, and debates, as it prepares the reader in a practical way for the challenges related to communication and expression. Persuasion is a convincing speech. Knowing how to have a persuasive narrative can be transforming in different aspects of your life! "I know this book works. It has worked for me. The reading is easy, the vocabulary is simple and informal. Communication is perfect: clear, accessible. It's a book about communication - it communicates perfectly." (Gabriela Prioli, former CNN host and master's degree in Criminal Law from USP). It's worth every line! This book will teach you the best persuasion practices used and tested by: - FBI Agents ; - Entrepreneurs in Investment Rounds; - Work meetings for project approval; - Pitches for presentations used by TED's great narrators ; - Other practical situations where the power of persuasion can transform your narrative form to new achievements. What you'll learn from this reading: Empirical and scholarly learnings about persuasion as science and art! - The invisible dynamics of influence in persuasive discourse; - The Aristotelian Rhetoric and the current world; - Who are you, how do you make me feel and how do you prove to me what you say?; - Persuasive Approaches to Persuasion - That's a fallacy! How to identify them (and avoid falling into them!); - Persuasive discourse in business: Pitch; - Do not be plankton: be present !; - Having effective arguments: non-violent communication; - Persuasion and influence on your microcosm: is praxis and rapport in the corporate world. "Mayte was able to transform complex content into an accessible language that can be applied in everyday practice in the most diverse situations." "Easy and engaging book of reading. The author makes use of very current examples to illustrate the different forms of persuasion and how to use them to our advantage. It made me reflect on how I communicate in the professional and personal sphere so that I can, from now on, improve my speech with the tools acquired." About the author: Mayte Carvalho Professor of Rhetoric at the School of Advertising and Marketing - ESPM, in São Paulo, Brazil, was elected by GQ magazine as one of the top 6 female entrepreneurs in Brazil. She has taken the American category 01 visa - intended for people with extraordinary skills and now lives in Los Angeles. In California, she serves as Director of Business Strategy for TBWA Chiat Day, one of the 5 largest advertising agencies in the United States, that has the most valuable brands in the world as clients.

Book Speak Out  Call In

Download or read book Speak Out Call In written by Meggie Mapes and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adaptive Rhetoric

Download or read book Adaptive Rhetoric written by Alex C. Parrish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical scholarship has for decades relied solely on culture to explain persuasive behavior. While this focus allows for deep explorations of historical circumstance, it neglects the powerful effects of biology on rhetorical behavior – how our bodies and brains help shape and constrain rhetorical acts. Not only is the cultural model incomplete, but it tacitly endorses the fallacy of human exceptionalism. By introducing evolutionary biology into the study of rhetoric, this book serves as a model of a biocultural paradigm. Being mindful of biological and cultural influences allows for a deeper view of rhetoric, one that is aware of the ubiquity of persuasive behavior in nature. Human and nonhuman animals, and even some plants, persuade to survive - to live, love, and cooperate. That this broad spectrum of rhetorical behavior exists in the animal world demonstrates how much we can learn from evolutionary biology. By incorporating scholarship on animal signaling into the study of rhetoric, the author explores how communication has evolved, and how numerous different species of animals employ similar persuasive tactics in order to overcome similar problems. This cross-species study of rhetoric allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing us with a deeper history of rhetoric that transcends the written and the televised, and reveals the artifacts of our communicative past.

Book Persuasion in the Media Age

Download or read book Persuasion in the Media Age written by Timothy Borchers and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasion in the Media Age addresses the impact of electronic media on the practice of persuasion and reviews constantly evolving digital strategies. Today’s world demands a new perspective on persuasion—one that is grounded in the assumption that human consciousness and culture have been forever altered by communication technology. The fourth edition provides timely examples of persuasion in political campaigns, social movements, marketing, and interpersonal relationships—and the role of social media and media technologies in all of the contexts. From advertisers to politicians to influencers to friends, persuaders use increasingly sophisticated strategies to sway behavior. Borchers skillfully weaves theory, research, and engaging examples to help readers understand the practice of social influence—and to apply critical-thinking skills to the persuasion they encounter daily. The text takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide the latest thinking on persuasion while also drawing on a broad theoretical base for foundational concepts, such as attitudes, rhetoric, and human motivation. Throughout, Borchers emphasizes audience, storytelling, visual images, and ethics. This comprehensive, insightful, and accessible overview of persuasive communication teaches readers how to be skilled creators of persuasive messages—as well as critical consumers.

Book The Art of Rhetoric

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aristotle
  • Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-16
  • ISBN : 1398805815
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book The Art of Rhetoric written by Aristotle and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Moral character, so to say, constitutes the most effective means of proof.' In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writers attempted to provide manuals to help improve debating skills, but it was not until Aristotle produced The Art of Rhetoric in the 4th century bc that the subject had a true masterpiece. As he considered the role of emotion, reason, and morality in speech, Aristotle created essential guidelines for argument and prose style that would influence writers for more than two millennia. Brilliantly explained and carefully reasoned, The Art of Rhetoric remains as relevant today as it was in the assemblies of ancient Athens.