Rhetorical Principles Research Articles

Analisis Retorika Dakwah Ustadz Hanan Attaki dalam Video Youtube “Kalo lagi Mentok, Harus Gimana?”: Kajian Retorika Aristoteles

This research discusses the application of Aristotle's rhetorical principles in the preaching video of ustadz Hanan Attaki entitled “Kalo Lagi Mentok, Harus Gimana?” The background of this research is the importance of understanding the stages of rhetoric in preaching to enhance understanding of the influence and effectiveness of the message conveyed. The aim of this research is to explain the stages of rhetoric in ustadz Hanan Attaki's preaching video based on Aristotle's theory. The method used is descriptive qualitative, with data collection through video research, transcription, and content analysis. The results of the study show that ustadz Hanan Attaki successfully applies Aristotle's five stages of rhetoric (Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, and Pronuntiatio) effectively in his preaching. The benefit of this research is an increased understanding of rhetoric in the context of Islamic preaching and the relevance and effectiveness of its use in delivering religious messages to modern audiences.

Contemporary prolepsis in digital rhetoric: the roles and functions of proleptic cues

This article explores the adaptation of Gérard Genette's concept of narrative prolepsis in the realm of social media as the proleptic technique, demonstrating its effectiveness as a tool for anticipatory rhetoric in digital communication. By analysing selected instances from Twitter and Facebook, the study illustrates how digital utterances employ proleptic cues to capture audience attention and potentially engage audiences. The concept of prolepsis, traditionally associated with narrative foresight in literature, is shown to be effectively transposed into the digital context, where it functions as a mechanism to attract user attention. This adaptation highlights the dynamism of rhetorical strategies in the evolving landscape of digital communication, underscoring the continuity of classical rhetorical principles in new media environments. Future research should incorporate a corpus study, which would allow for an in-depth examination of the diverse array of proleptic cues employed by social media influencers. Furthermore, an exploration into the persuasive efficacy of prolepsis, along with its potential links to reasoning fallacies, could provide intriguing insights. Additionally, an analysis of audience reactions to these cues could contribute to a more holistic understanding of their impact.

The fundamental elements of rhethoric and their impact on music art

Relevance. Rhetoric, traditionally associated with effective speech, also deeply influences musical composition and interpretation, particularly in string and plucked instruments which are emblematic of Ukrainian national art. This article explores the significant interplay between rhetorical principles and musical expression, emphasizing its relevance in the context of contemporary performance art.Purpose. The study aims to investigate how rhetorical principles, specifically the inventio techniques, apply to musical expression and performance. It seeks to enrich the theoretical framework of Ukrainian musicology with innovative approaches to the application of rhetorical inventio in music.Methodology. The research is grounded in the linguistic musicology of B. Asafiev�s school and incorporates a detailed examination of the tone-sound specifics of expressive sound production in music. The methodology involves analyzing the inventio principles and their impact on the artistic components of instrumental playing.Results. The study identifies the intensity of the artistic component in instrumental music creation and performance, highlighting the role of rhetorical principles in shaping the expressive sound production and performer�s artistic stance. It also recognizes the theoretical innovation brought about by integrating rhetorical inventio into musicological discourse.Conclusions. The findings demonstrate that rhetorical principles, particularly inventio, significantly enhance musical expression and instrumental performance. This integration not only supports the improvisational skills of musicians but also contributes to a richer and more nuanced understanding of musical composition and its performance in the modern era. The research underscores the potential for further exploration and application of rhetoric in musicology, promising advancements in both theoretical and practical dimensions of musical art.

President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Victoria Day parade in the light of some Ciceronian rhetorical principles

The purpose of this article is to examine the manner in which three of the principles of Ciceronian rhetoric and oratory are used in the speech of President V. Putin on the occasion of the Victory Day parade. The first of them, regarding the auditor’s information, is partially respected by the Russian president, in that he presents too little data intended to provide a somewhat concrete picture of how Western countries have reported, over time, to Russia’s defense requirements. Next, we bring enough examples to demonstrate the orator’s preference for the principle that consists in convincing the audience by appealing to arguments of an affective nature. The third, convincing the public through ethical arguments, strictly depends on the achievement of the previous ones. The degree of respect for each one emerges from the specific quotes in the content. The natural conclusion of the approach is that the Russian president prefers only one of them, failing, in our opinion, to effectively capitalize on the other two, a fact that has (or should have) repercussions on the persuasion of the audience.

Teaching Teamwork: Online Technical Writing Courses with Engineering Students

Using a pragmatic approach, this case study aims to incorporate communication skills in team teaching in light of the literature, describes how communication and teamwork principles play out in online third-year technical writing courses with ethnically diverse international students and faculty from engineering and other STEM majors at an institute of technology in the USA (n = 48). The data were collected using weekly assignments for the semester-long course; and student evaluations of course outcomes. The findings showed that because students wrote weekly short analyses and received weekly feedback, they most often improved their writing skills, such as editing their writings according to American English rules, and transferred learning of rhetorical principles from one setting (analyzing other people’s writing) into another setting as they learnt to work as a team of productive writers.

Toward a holistic hermeneutic and preaching in a divided world

Preachers’ finding a hermeneutical and practical bridge in preaching could bring evangelicals and progressives together for productive discussion. After a brief survey on the history of biblical interpretation, highlighting trends that have led to today’s divisions in interpretive approaches among Christians, I engage with the writings of contemporary scholars and principles of Aristotelian rhetoric. Then, a reflection on Luke 18:35–43 facilitates a theological and hermeneutical dialogue using the insights of both theological spectrums and leads to two practical hermeneutical suggestions for holistic preaching: using literary criticism to read and interpret the focal text with an eye to the “bigger” picture and applying reader-response interpretation to bring in the theological perspectives of those in the community.

The Middle of the Distance

In the perception of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin and in scholarly discourse on it, the legend associated with the tales of the Knights of the Grail prevails. But the romantic element in opera had a political and even revolutionary meaning for Wagner. The historical layer of the operatic action in Lohengrin draws on the Deeds of the Saxons by Widukind of Corvey and recounts the birth of the Yrst Germanic parish, united by Henry the Fowler, the “Father of the Fatherland” — and the Yrst Germanic emperor. The Romantic generation of German revolutionaries — Wagner's peers and associates — excavated the ancient history of Germany and German mythology from old manuscripts and established it in the minds of the aedgling nation. Lohengrin was the Yrst German opera to give artistic life to the revolutionary and patriotic ideas of the German Renaissance. The peculiarity of the opera lies in the interplay of the original Wagnerian principles of composition with operatic forms of Italian origin. The composer would later cite Johann Sebastian Bach as the ideal example of the “Germanic” in his ludicrous French wig and his fundamentally Italian style. By combining the rhetorical principle directly derived from Bach's music with a variety of German melodic sources from chorales to Romantic songs, Wagner had fully mastered his musical language. This article examines the compositional symmetries, supports, and arches that build the integral structure, new duet forms, and other Yndings that had a continuation in operas aber Lohengrin, as well as the main feature of this work: the combination of lyricism and tragedy, history and myth, which opens the way to countless interpretations of meaning on the modern opera stage.

Etchings in the books by Lazar Baranovych: The communicative aspects ofcomposition

The paper addresses the compositional and communicative senses of the textual insertions to the etched frames of the title pages and the following pages with symbolic etchings in the books Mech dukhovny (The Spiritual Sword, 1666) and Truby sloves propovidnykh (The Trumpets of Preaching Words, 1674) by Chernihiv archbishop Lazar Baranovych. It was revealed that the textual insertions, which are the citations from the Bible that prevail on the stretched ribbons, were used as the key structural elements of the composition. The ribbons with citations functioned as the inner frames, dividing the composition to tiers or separate sections within the tier, simultaneously commenting the closest images. This was a practical and simple method of structuring the compositions, already oversaturated with characters and senses. The ribbons for a table ofsorts, the cells of which are filled with images. In addition, more complex variant ofstructuring the images with textual insertions was developed. The ribbons with citations placed symmetrically towards the vertical axis of the etching formed a separate fancy composition that resembled an ornamental vignette with an evident decorative function. Nevertheless, even in this case the ribbon composition structured the overall image, while the positioning of the depicted scenes was subordinated to the overall intricate design indicated with the ribbons of quotes. Both approaches to structuring the compositions of the first etching of the book with the textual insertions and forming an hierarchy for reading these insertions were based on the rhetorical principles of narration.

“THE SERMON ΟΝ LAW AND GRACE”: A MODEL OF REFUTATIONAL - PROBATIVE ARGUMENTATION

The author of the paper analyzed the models of refutational and probative argumentation in an outstanding piece of Kyivan Rus’ literature of the 11th century — “The Sermon on Law and Grace” by metropolitan Hilarion of Kyiv. Although certain aspects of the work have already been properly analyzed, the formal rhetorical principles of polemical argumentation in “The Sermon on Law and Grace” remain little studied. The construction of the argument itself and compositional regularities of its structural organization still need due consideration. Throughout the entire reflection, moving from one topic to another, the author of “The Sermon…” maintains the same principle of literary presentation — dialectical oratio. This model is based on a special dialectical reasoning rooted in the principle of antinomies and originated in ancient judicial rhetoric. In “The Sermon on Law and Grace”, the dialectical oratio is built according to the ‘refutation + proof’ scheme. That is, the author initially refutes something and then proves something. Τhis rhetorical tendency is used throughout the work. Hilarion constantly tries to expose and devalue something characterized as outdated, related to Old Testament, Jewish or pagan, and glorify the new, evangelical, and Christian. However, denying one thing and affirming the other do not exhaust the author’s goal. Such dialectical unity of the negative and the affirmative in characterization of one object not only goes back to the traditions of ancient judicial rhetoric but also reflects the Eastern Christian theological tradition. Something similar can be seen in the treatises by Dionysius the Areopagite. In the works “On Mystical Theology”, “On Divine Names”, and “On the Heavenly Hierarchy”, Dionysius the Areopagite derives a complex antinomic system of symbolic designations of the Divine Essence, qualifying a part of them as apophatic (dissimilar) and the other part as kataphatic (similar). Perhaps, the reasoning model of refutatio + probatio in ancient rhetoric, the apophatic-cataphatic principle of determining the names of God in the “Corpus Areopagiticum”, and refutational-probative argumentation in “The Sermon on Law and Grace” are formal links of a general rhetorical oratory chain. However, this issue requires a more thorough study based on a wide range of literary material, including ancient, biblical, medieval, etc.

The Student-Podcaster as Narrator of Social Change?

Podcasting has been used by many scholars to teach ancient and contemporary rhetorical principles. We extend this conversation by examining narrative nonfiction podcasting and its potential to work toward social change. We suggest pedagogical principles that amplify the affordances of the genre and acknowledge its constraints for achieving social change.

The Coherence of Surah Al-Dzariyat in Perspective of Semitic Rhetoric

The order of the verses and their coherence has been debated among orientalists in qur’anic structure studies. This article aims to reveal the coherence of surah Al-Dzariyat questioned by Richard Bell, regarding the correlation between the verses in the surah. The method of analysing this surah is Semitic Rhetorical Analysis (SRA), utilising the verses’ symmetry explanations from Muslim scholars’ interpretations. This library research adopts descriptive and content analysis methods for analysing data. As the result of the study, surah adz-Dzariyat consists of two passages and seven parts in mirror construction based on Semitic Rhetoric principles. The relation between the verses shows their coherence and excellent verses order without jumpy arrangement. Several groups of verses which at first appeared to be irregular became to appear orderly and have a specific connection which can be understood through Semitic Rhetoric principles. This analysis strengthens the miracles of the Qur’an and refutes various opinions that doubt how good the order of the verses of the Qur’an is.

ПІДТВЕРДЖУВАЛЬНЕ ВИКРИВЛЕННЯ В ПРОЦЕСАХ АРГУМЕНТАЦІЇ

B a c k g r o u n d . The article is devoted to the study of confirmatory distortion as a cognitive bias within the framework of the modern theory of argumentation. In the context of this study, the effectiveness of the critical questioning technique as an argumentation strategy aimed at reducing the negative impact of confirmatory bias is considered. M e t h o d s . To achieve the goals of the research, the method of critical questions is used, which is based on the traditional principles of logic, dialectics and rhetoric. Specific lists of critical questions are developed for each argumentative scheme. R e s u l t s . The article demonstrates that standard critical questions for schemes of practical reasoning, developed by eminent specialists, are able to minimize the negative impact of confirmation bias. This is achieved by taking into account information that may conflict with the agent's action plan. C o n c l u s i o n s . The study highlights the importance of using critical questions as a tool to minimize confirmation bias. Such an approach not only contributes to the substantiation of arguments, but also stimulates self-control and the search for information that may cause doubts about one's own views. The final part of the article examines propaganda as the deliberate use of confirmatory distortion and points to the need for attention to language patterns where it occurs rather unintentionally. In connection with the specificity of the studied phenomenon, the term "confirmation bias" is proposed as a translation of the English "confirmation bias".

المهارات البلاغية لدى علقمة بن عبدة بائيته نموذجا

This article: entitled “Rhetorical Skills of Alqamah bin Abdah and his primitive poem as a model, in which the researcher spoke a brief overview of the poet’s life and the importance of rhetoric and its origin after defining it in language and terminology. In it, it presented its primitive that is closely related to rhetorical research and language, and tried to trace and elicit rhetorical images in it, mentioning Some results that benefit the rhetorical theory in terms of alliteration, counterpoint, and repetition in the poem. The researcher believes that following rhetorical studies is the key that reveals treasures for the secrets and jewels of the Glorious Qur’an. This is what made Muslim scholars to the forefront and diligence to show the rhetorical principles and their meanings and what is related to them and make them in an exact form. It enables a student of Arabic to understand it in the easiest way.

The Persuasive Function of the Title as a “Movere” Tool in Journalistic Film Reviews

Based on theories in pragmatics, rhetoric, argumentation and discourse analysis, the genre of “journalistic film review”, relatively little examined, has been analysed in this paper as a discourse reflecting a justified assessment. Our analysis, presented as a case study, concerns the persuasive function of the titles of 53 French and francophone film reviews. In this analysis, the act of persuasion, anchored in Perelman’s (1971) concept of argumentation, corresponds to the rhetorical structure of public discourse. For the act of persuasion, we focus on discursive and stylistic parameters related to the rhetorical principle of “movere” as the basis of the film review’s deliberative (advisory and justifying) dimension. The role of this dimension is to invite the addressee to co-create the meaning of the discourse through the process of co-schematisation, implemented with the help of emotional argumentation in the form of appraisive and affective lexemes. These stylistic devices also constitute a mechanism of persuasion typical of advertising discourse.

Actualization of the problem of forming the public speaking experience

The article emphasizes that the experience of public speaking of the future teacher is a necessary condition for his pedagogical activity. An overview of the fundamental works of domestic and foreign studies on the topic under study is given. Their scientific contribution to pandemic pedagogy and the problems of researching the practice of personal growth, tools, means, the formation of the experience of public speaking of the future teacher, which are supplemented in the article with audience management techniques, generalization of the experience of public speaking of future teachers; materials, research methods (theoretical analysis, observation, analysis of the experience of the authors of the article) are described. The results reveal the basic principles of rhetoric on which the success of public speaking is based. Also, it highlighted the ways in which the speakers managed to establish contact with the audience and attract attention during the speech.

NOB's Poetics

Abstract This article addresses the turn in Norman O. Brown's intellectual orientation during the 1960s, a reorientation reflecting his newfound alliance with poets, and an internalization of a spirit of poetry that he explicitly derived from the heady atmosphere of the 1960s counterculture. Consequently, he professed a Dionysian outlook on the body politic as a single and singular corporeality, and pledged allegiance to the rhetorical principle of paronomasia—a play on words that sound alike but have different meanings. In his final works Brown came to repeatedly affirm that “there is only poetry.”

Storytelling for persuasion: Insights from community health workers on how they engage family members to improve adoption of recommended maternal nutrition and breastfeeding behaviours in rural Bangladesh.

Community health workers (CHWs) increasingly provide interpersonal counselling to childbearing women and their families to improve adoption of recommended maternal and child nutrition behaviours. Little is known about CHWs' first‐hand experiences garnering family support for improving maternal nutrition and breastfeeding practices in low‐resource settings. Using focused ethnography, we drew insights from the strategies that CHWs used to persuade influential family members to support recommendations on maternal diet, rest and breastfeeding in a behaviour change communication trial in rural Bangladesh. We interviewed 35 CHWs providing at‐home interpersonal counselling to pregnant women and their families in seven ‘Alive & Thrive’ intervention sites. In‐depth probing focused on how CHWs addressed lack of family support. Thematic coding based on Fisher's narrative paradigm revealed strategic use of three rhetorical principles by CHWs: ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion) and logos (logic). CHWs reported selectively targeting pregnant women, husbands and mothers‐in‐law based on their influence on behavioural adoption. Key motivators to support recommended behaviours were improved foetal growth and child intelligence. Improved maternal health was the least motivating outcome, even among mothers. Logically coherent messaging resonated well with husbands, while empathetic counselling was additionally required for mothers. Mothers‐in‐law were most intransigent, but were persuaded via emotional appeals. Persuasion on maternal rest was most effort‐intensive, resulting in contextually appealing but scientifically inaccurate messaging. Our study demonstrates that CHWs can offer important insights on context‐relevant, feasible strategies to improve family support and uptake of nutrition recommendations. It also identifies the need for focused CHW training and monitoring to address scientifically flawed counselling narratives.

Full Disclosure: Black Rhetoric, Writing Assessment, and Afrocentric Rubrics

ABSTRACT This essay focuses on writing assessment. Specifically, the author explores the embedded raced construction of writing assessment, rubrics, inter alia, commonly used in first year composition courses. The author posits that rubrics used to assess what Asao Inoue termed Habits of White Language cannot effectively assess and may be detrimental to assessing speakers from different linguistic backgrounds, specifically African Americans. The importance of Black Language (BL), rhetoric, and argumentation styles to rhetorical studies and American discourse must not only be recognized but also explored and taught as a style of argumentation. I implement an Afrocentric rubric using the principles of African American Rhetoric as a means for both expanding the rhetorical triangle and providing ethical assessment of BL in writing.

Totalitarian and Democratic Rhetoric as an Indicator of the Relations of Power in the Contemporary Information Society

The article is devoted to study of totalitarian and democratic types of rhetoric. The classical dichotomy of rhetorical influence has been discovered: monologic use of rhetoric as a verbal weapon through propaganda, demagoguery, populism, creation of the image of an enemy, division of society (totalitarian type of rhetoric) and dialogical use of rhetoric as consolidating communication, truth-seeking, social consent and understanding (democratic type of rhetoric). It is shown that the trigger of democratic and totalitarian regimes is the existential of freedom. The active influence of the postmodern rhetoric of the information age in its performativity in the acquisition of snack culture is determined, which significantly strengthens the manipulative strategies. Totalitarian tendencies of digital rhetoric are found in information warfare technologies (network trolling, mobbing, hype, hatering, holy waring, click-baiting, sockpuppeting), in the processes of censorship, ambivalence and negativism of information, spreading fake news, igniting conflicts in mass media. Militarization of vocabulary and spread of obscene language in ordinary communication as factors of compensatory aggression of the population, the danger of excessive information transparency of people’s private lives are noted. Democratism of the digital rhetoric is manifested in such phenomena as the direct creation of e-democracy, access of citizens to e-voting, e-services, e-petitions, overcoming digital inequality, the ability to communicate with officials and public officers live on TV and radio, in social networks. Democratic principles of rhetoric, especially in Ukraine as a state of “transitional democracy” should be supported by quality education, fostering critical thinking and activity of civil society.

Investigating Cohesiveness of QS. Al-Mā’idah: A Review on Michel Cuypers Implementation of Semitic Rhetorical Analysis (SRA)

This article examines Michel Cuyper’s interpretation of the Qur’an which is the result of the application of Semitic Rhetorical Analysis (SRA) in QS. Al-Mā’idah. Although SRA’s implementation has demonstrated the coherence of the Qur’anic text; however, no one has properly articulated the cohesiveness of the Qur’anic text as the basis of that coherence. Thus, to ascertain the text’s cohesiveness in terms of positions and forms from the SRA’s perspective, this study applied cohesion text theories to Cuypers’ implementation of SRA in QS. Al-Mā’idah. A thesis of the paper is that, according to SRA, the cohesiveness of a qur’anic text in QS Al-Mā’idah can be shown through the pairings of words or sentences inside particular groupings of text particles following the principles of Semitic Rhetoric. The Semitic Rhetoric’s principle of parallel, concentric, or mirror symmetry in those text particle groups determined which words or phrases are paired in a text particle group. As a result, from an SRA perspective, the Qur’anic text’s cohesiveness may be discovered at each level of the text particle group, demonstrating multi-layered cohesiveness. In Cuypers’ reading of QS Al-Mā’idah, synonyms and repetition are used to maintain lexical cohesion, while ellipsis, substitution, and reference established grammatical cohesion.