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Ethos, Pathos, And Logos: The Benefits Of Aristotelian Rhetoric In The Courtroom, Krista C. McCormack Washington University School of Law

Ethos, Pathos, And Logos: The Benefits Of Aristotelian Rhetoric In The Courtroom, Krista C. Mccormack

Washington University Jurisprudence Review

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Donna Ludwig Peterson 02, Tyrone Marshall Linfield College

Donna Ludwig Peterson 02, Tyrone Marshall

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This photograph of Donna Ludwig Peterson was taken during an interview that was collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project.

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Steve Jobs’ Use Of Ethos For Persuasive Success In His 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Keith Bistodeau Ohio University

Steve Jobs’ Use Of Ethos For Persuasive Success In His 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Keith Bistodeau

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

The use of ethos in persuasive settings has always been a powerful tool in public speaking, especially by those in power and in businesses. Kenneth Burke’s Pentad plays a primary role in persuasive situations, particularly when we as scholars try to dissect and understand specific aspects of a speech situation. In this essay I used Burke’s Pentad as a framework to explore Steve Jobs’ use of, as I term it, “internal and external ethos” as not only a persuasive mechanism, but also as a force to build his persona/mythological legacy.

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The Timeless Speech: A Close Textual Analysis Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Inaugural, Amanda Rene Biane California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

The Timeless Speech: A Close Textual Analysis Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's Inaugural, Amanda Rene Biane

Communication Studies

John F. Kennedy's inaugural is a rhetorical masterpiece. Our world has aged forty-nine years and within those years the threats have remained the same with a few minor tweaks. Kennedy's inaugural is considered not only extremely affective but also immensely profound, because like any other great presidential inaugural is it timeless. Close textual analysis is employed to analyze his speech.

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Esl Students' Language Anxiety In In-Class Oral Presentations, Yusi Chen Marshall University

Esl Students' Language Anxiety In In-Class Oral Presentations, Yusi Chen

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This case study aims to explore connections between ESL students’ speaking-in-class anxiety and their presentation performance, factors causing oral anxiety during presentations, and strategies to regulate L2 students’ speaking anxiety in presentations. Findings of this research contribute to the investigation of speaking-in-class anxiety from non-English major L2 students. Three Chinese ESL students enrolled in the INTO program at Marshall University individually gave two presentations in speaking classes. Triangulated data sources were collected to delve into three research questions. The results suggest that L2 students’ anxiety forms mental blocks during presentations, but it has less influence on their presentation performance. Based ...

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Healing Through Hope: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Barack Obama’S National Eulogies, Victoria West Hollins University

Healing Through Hope: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Barack Obama’S National Eulogies, Victoria West

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This paper analyzes President Barack Obama’s rhetoric in three of his national eulogies in order to examine how Obama consoles the nation following various tragedies, and how his strategies differ from past presidents. These three addresses include President Obama’s responses to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Boston Marathon bombings, and the West, TX plant explosion. For this paper a rhetorical analysis of Obama’s addresses was performed using a form of genre criticism. The components of this genre criticism were drawn from Robert Dennis and Adrienne Dennis Kunkel’s (2004) framework concerning national eulogy rhetoric. The ...

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A Style Of His Own: A Rhetorical Analysis Of President Barack Obama's Inaugural Addresses, Victoria West Hollins University

A Style Of His Own: A Rhetorical Analysis Of President Barack Obama's Inaugural Addresses, Victoria West

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This paper analyzes President Obama’s rhetoric in his two inaugural addresses in order to determine how his presidential rhetoric conforms and violates current rhetorical traditions in inaugural addresses. For this paper a rhetorical analysis of Obama’s addresses was performed using a form of genre criticism. The components for this genre criticism were drawn from Vanessa B. Beasley’s work on presidential rhetoric in her book You, the People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric. Results of this analysis will showed that President Obama’s presidential rhetoric is more secular than previous presidents and focuses more on shared American ...

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A Textual Analysis Of Barack Obama's Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race, Andrea Dawn Andrews Butler University

A Textual Analysis Of Barack Obama's Campaign Discourse Regarding His Race, Andrea Dawn Andrews

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This study is a textual analysis of Barack Obama's nine most noteworthy speeches from 2004 to 2009 during his rise to prominence and presidential campaign. Because Obama was considered an inspiring speaker and because he was the first African American to win either a major party's presidential nomination or a general • • presidential election, this study examines how Obama's use of language about his race may have contributed to his success. Previous research has shown that use of six rhetorical devices resonates with the American people: abstraction, democratic speech conversational speech, valence messages, conciliatory messages and imagery. The ...

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Donna Ludwig Peterson 01, Tyrone Marshall Linfield College

Donna Ludwig Peterson 01, Tyrone Marshall

Storyteller Photographs

This photograph of Donna Ludwig Peterson was taken during an interview that was collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project.

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Use Of Rhetoric In 1960'S Protest Music: A Case Study Of Bob Dylan's Music, Colleen Wilkowski Rollins College

Use Of Rhetoric In 1960'S Protest Music: A Case Study Of Bob Dylan's Music, Colleen Wilkowski

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this study is to analyze the use of rhetoric in protest music of the 1960s, using Bob Dylan’s music as a case study. The 1960s was a time of revolution and social change in the United States. Throughout this time, protest music served as an outlet for musicians to voice their support for this change. By conducting a rhetorical analysis, this study assesses the ways in which the tools of classical rhetoric can be applied to the music of this time. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical functions of this music in the context of the ...

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Establishing Influence And Authority In Ancient Civilizations And Modern Politics: The Rhetoric Of Oracles And The Oracular Maneuvers Of Political Action Committees, Michel C. LaCrue 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Establishing Influence And Authority In Ancient Civilizations And Modern Politics: The Rhetoric Of Oracles And The Oracular Maneuvers Of Political Action Committees, Michel C. Lacrue

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While most animals communicate in order to convey environmental information such as danger or where food is located, humans have evolved and developed an articulated language for a myriad of uses, and our language is the basis for how we shape and maintain reality. Language can be used to teach, express an attitude or affiliation to a group, and give us a sense of our state of being, but it can also be used to manipulate a narrative in order to gain power over others. This project argues that Political Action Committees (PACs), and the language that they use in ...

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Complete Issue 12(4), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

Complete Issue 12(4)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 12, issue 4, Summer 1975) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 11(4), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Complete digitized issue (volume 11, issue 4, May 1974) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 11, number 3, March 1974) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 11, issue 2, January 1974) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 11, issue 1, November 1973) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 10(3), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 10, issue 3, March 1973) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 10, issue 2, January 1973) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 10, issue 1, November 1972) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 10(4), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Complete digitized issue (volume 10, issue 4, May 1973) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 9(4), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 9, issue 4, May 1972) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 9(3)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 9, issue 3, March 1972) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 9(2)

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized issue (volume 9, issue 2, January 1972) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 9, issue 1, November 1971) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete Issue 8(4), 2018 Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Complete digitized issue (volume 8, issue 4, May 1971) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Complete digitized issue (volume 8, issue 3, March 1971) of Speaker & Gavel.

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Amanda Biane California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Yusi Chen Marshall University

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Siobhan Miller California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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