PPT-Visual Rhetoric

and Reading the Body Just like written texts visual images are used to communicate messages In fact even before written texts humans used images to communicate We see visual rhetoric in art. Classroom. By. . Rebecca Torres Valdovinos. My Story. “Psychologists investigating perception are increasingly insistent that what is perceived depends upon the observer’s perceptual frame of reference”. . “the art of . persuasion”. 1. The art of speaking or writing . effectively. 2 . Writing, speaking or communicating as a means of . persuasion. .. RHETORIC. : . What is it?. Where do we see rhetoric in society today?. A Brief Introduction. Adapted from Stephen . Harmon and Stanislav . Rivkin . All Images argue something, just like written rhetoric. But unlike written rhetoric, visual rhetoric may be less straightforward. It might require additional analysis to understand the argument . . What is it?. Plato: Rhetoric is the art of enchanting the soul. Philip Johnson: Rhetoric is the art of framing an argument so that it can be appreciated by an audience. .. Andrea Lunsford: Rhetoric is the art, practice, and study of human communication. Rhetoric in Academic Writing Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacy Series The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. - Ezra Pound What do we mean b How Are Form and Content Related?. Lecture . 4. : CAT 125. Elizabeth . Losh. http://losh.ucsd.edu. . Langdon Winner on “. Mythinformation. ”. . “Taken . as a whole, beliefs of this kind constitute what . Metadiscourse. Robert T. Craig. University of Colorado Boulder. Robert.Craig@Colorado.edu. Presentation to Rhetoric in Society 4. Copenhagen, 17 January 2013. Studies of . metadiscursive. framing in public discourse can inform normative thinking about rhetorical citizenship.. American Deliberative Rhetoric. Lincoln. Kennedy. Obama. Australian Epideictic Rhetoric. Keating. Gillard. Middle Eastern Forensic Rhetoric. Netanyahu . Loach. Abraham, Barack, and John. American Deliberative Rhetoric. Mrs. Oualline. English I. Rhetoric is seriously EVERYWHERE. Whether you realize it or not, you are surrounded by RHETORIC!. (It’s really not as creepy as it sounds.). Billboards, Commercials, Ads. Magazines. Philip Johnson: Rhetoric is the art of framing an argument so that it can be appreciated by an audience. .. Andrea Lunsford: Rhetoric is the art, practice, and study of human communication. John Locke: That powerful instrument of error and deceit.  . Modern Rhetoric. Modern Rhetoric can best be defined by Kenneth Burke, who said “rhetoric is the ability to move bodies to action.”. Have you recently been in a friendly (or heated) debate with someone?. Rhetoric is the . Art of Persuasive Language. Writers and speakers use Rhetoric to convince readers and listeners to . do something. or . to think something. .. Think of every time you want to get your way. You are using rhetoric without knowing it!. “The ability, in either case, to see the available means of persuasion.”. --Aristotle, Greek philosopher. With a partner:. Pretend one of you is a parent and the other is the child. . Child-persuade your “parent” to consider buying you a new car when you turn 16. . Rhetoric began 2500 years ago as the study of the . forms of communication and argument essential to public, political and legal life. in Ancient Greece. It has since evolved a rich and diverse body of research, texts, and pedagogies.