...wanted to. Here the leader or the speaker or the sender is the centre of attraction and the crowd simply the passive listeners. | The example actually explains the Aristotle model of communication. The Aristotle model of communication is the widely accepted and the most common model of communication where the sender sends the information or a message to the receivers to influence them and make them respond and act accordingly. Aristotle model of communication is the golden rule to excel in public speaking, seminars, lectures where the sender makes his point clear by designing an impressive content, passing on the message to the second part and they simply respond accordingly. The Art of Rhetoric: Learning How to Use the Three Main Rhetorical Styles According to Aristotle, rhetoric is "the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion." He described three main forms of rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. 2....
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...constraints against Kennedy’s attempt to help the audience find wisdom in a time of despair, Kennedy was able to recognize his audiences exigencies and subdue violence in the city of Indianapolis (Anatold & Bittner, 31). He was able to do this through the rhetorical situation, defined by Lloyd F. Bitzer as “a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse, introduced into the situation, can so constrain human decision or action as to bring about the significant modification of the exigence” (Bitzer, 6). Kennedy understood Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric defined as, “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion” (Aristotle, 2). Kennedy had to establish a proposal of understanding and compassion within his audience, to ignite the vision of justice that King worked for. His use of pathos and ethos that Aristotle defines as modes of persuasion, allowed Kennedy to identify and establish trust with his audience through his emotional appeal and credibility. This relationship he creates with his audience helps them agree later on with his argument for peace and non-violence. Ultimately, the rhetorical situation permitted Kennedy to address and recognize the audience’s exigencies, convince them through pathos and ethos that further polarization would harm their cause, and dissuade them from turning to violence on the night of King’s death. Kennedy was the...
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...He chose to preform it in Washington DC “at a first green university”, and he begins with thanking all the significant people who are there listening to him. Even through there is more young adults than “high positioned" people listening to his speech, there is at that moment most of our “next generation” science students that he wanted to inspire from beginning of their careers. Through his speech, he mentions that “soon 120 countries will have a meeting in Berlin” (Gore) where he will show that other countries are starting to deal with this problem all over the world too. A rhetorical situation in Lloyd Bitzer's essay "The Rhetorical Situation" is defined as: “as a complex of persons, events, objects, and relations presenting an actual or potential exigence which can be completely or partially removed if discourse introduced into the situation, .” (Bitzer 6). So in this case the rhetorical situation is the problem in the climate change that we, as humans that live on this...
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