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HComm final
Question | Answer | |||
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4 aspects of bilateral argument | 4 aspects of bilateral argument 1. respect for free will of arguers 2. be willing to put yourself in risk 3. salience- 2 sides to the argument 4. tension of what you were, and what you might become | |||
3rd assumption of bilateral argument | 3. horizon of experience, immediate experience -your opinions about something that is exclusive to you | |||
4th assumption of bilateral argument | 4. a "being," its relationship to being an arguer or addressee of an argument -some1 who wants to live in a single horizon of experience | |||
5th assumption of bilateral argument | 5. the "wedge" of argumentation as an arguer and addressee 1. avoid 2. make some1 understand you 3. concieve to some1 else's argument | |||
1st assumption of bilateral argument | 1. conception of argumentation -consequence of arguments | |||
2nd assumption of bilateral argument | 2. identity & argumentation -claim - a little less than complete control over another | |||
3rd consequences for arguers and addressees | 1. develop self and become more human. transcending to your horizon of experience | 2. develop openness and tolerance | 3. allows you to live in reality, and not just YOUR reality | |
1st assumption of muted group theory | Women perceive the world differently than men because of women's and men's different experiences and activities rooted in the division of labor | |||
2nd assumption of muted group theory | Because of their political dominance, men's system of perception is dominant, impeding the free expression of women's alternative models of the world | |||
3rd assumption of muted group theory | in order to participate in society, women must transform their own models in terms of the received male system of expression | |||
muted group theory: second shift | the phenomenon of working women putting in eight hour on the job and another day's work at home | |||
Muted group theory at a glance | muted groups can form due to one's group that appears to be less articulate than those groups who speak the dominant group's language | |||
4 assumptions of cognitive dissonance theory | 1. we desire consistency in cognition -things need to make sense | 2. dissonance is connected to psychological inconsistencies | 3. drives people to do things -try to change inconsistency | 4. motivates to relieve conscious and dissonance |
3 factors of cognitive dissonance | 1. how important is the issue to you | 2. dissonance ratio | 3. what explanation is there to help cope and make sense of all of it | |
3 ways to cope with dissonance | 1. change ratio | 2. don't make it a central issue | 3. distort the information | |
4 ways of coping with dissonance by selective perception | 1. selective exposure -not already present and search out answers | 2. selective attention -looking @ consistant info and ignore other things | 3. selective interpretation -try to interprete ambiguity so it aligns with your beliefs | 4. selective retention -retains info to make more sense of your beliefs |
3 assumptions about Relational Dialects Theory | relationships are not linear but oscillatory. Consistently changing | no progress, and replacement isn't better, just different | communication is central to disagreements | |
Basic relational dialectics: | Autonomy and connection: need space but want people in that space | novelty and predictability: want stability but want change | contextual dialectics: how much PDA you want shown | |
Responses to Relational Dialectics theory | 1. cynical alteration: choose one of the opposing tensions at different times | 2. segmentation: isolate separate areas of the relationship-segment tensions | 3. Selection (and ignoring): choose to focus on one but might expand in another need | 4. Integration: 3 options. A. compromise, B. Transform, C. Eliminate certain issues |
2 goals of Black's second persona | 1. provide a method for rhetorical judgment of a discourse. (How do you judge rhetoric?) | 2. Provide a new method of doing criticism | ||
Black's second persona: Difficulty and importance of judgements | 1. Closes discussion | 2. criticism requires it | 3. what are you judging? | 4. effect/tensions of what you judge |
Black's second persona: Discourse and character states: | 1. personality is revealed based on speech | 2. style, form, and substance influence your audience | ||
Bitzer: key idea | all language has an audience | |||
Bitzer: Constituents of a rhetorical situation | Exigence: imperfection marked by urgency, that can be changed by talking | Audience: person(s) who function as mediators of change | Constraints: persons, events, objects, and relationsh that have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the exigence | Fitting response: continuation and alteration by text |
Origins of Rhetoric: Assumptions about Sophists vs. Plato | Sophists: no absolute truth | Plato: there is an absolute truth. Truth is found through dialect | ||
Rhetorical theories and instruction: Sophists vs. Plato | Sophists: no given rules for public speaking. Have to learn how to talk and persuade | Plato: must know types of languages. Must know soul. must know absolute truth of a person | ||
Aristotle on Rhetoric: Definition | the capacity to see how much persuasion you can get out of someone | |||
Aristotle: types of rhetoric | Forensic: judge from past experiences | Epideictic: Present. Mold virtue and tries to enhance beliefs of virtues | Deliberative: what you should do in the future. cost/benefit analysis | |
Aristotle: Three modes of persuasion | 1. ethos: are you a leader? | 2. pathos: emotional persuasion & reasoning | 3. logos: arguments | |
Burke: 3 reasons for drama | 1. Scope: everything is rhetoric | 2. genres structure reality: life has genres | 3. audience: always has and will influence audience | |
Burke: 3 assumptions of dramatism | 1. Humans use symbols | 2. language determines thought | 3. humans have choice and we show people our reality by using rhetoric | |
Burke: Pentad | Act, Scene, Agent. KNOW THESE NIGGA!!!!!!!! |