Rhetorical Skills Research Articles

플라톤의 ｢파이드로스｣: 에로스와 수사술의 교육적 관계

Eros and rhetoric, the theme of Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus, can be interpreted from an educational perspective. Eros as the passion that gives rise to the wings of the soul and causes humans to love the beauty of heaven, is a concept that represents the relationship between a teacher and a student. A teacher is a being who approaches students and expresses love, leading the students to love wisdom, which is the embodiment of beauty, through the teacher. A student’s love for wisdom is possible through the teachings of a teacher who loves knowledge. In order to teach knowledge well, true rhetorical skills are needed. True rhetoric is not a procedural method separate from the content, but a method of exploring knowledge attached to the content that enables a deep understanding of the content. When teaching the content of a book written in writing, a teacher strives to implement true rhetoric by using his or her own words to ask questions, refute, and explain. A teacher is a being who breathes life into dead letters through words.

Comparison of Authorial Stance Between Professional and Amateur Writers in Scientific Correspondence Writing

Writing argumentative correspondences is an art requiring linguistic and rhetorical skills to bring forth the ultimate effect of persuading the audience. However, instruction of this critical language art has been underrepresented in Thai tertiary educational contexts. This study is based on an interventional experiment of teaching an ESP-Science course to 40 students majoring in science, with a strong emphasis on linguistic devices for academic interaction, consisting of stance and engagement marking, as elaborated in Hyland (2005a, 2005b). The interventional experiment made use of the 240 correspondences taken from the scientific journal Nature with the duration of 30 hours over a 10-week period. This study reports the findings from a comparison of the students’ writing before and after the intervention and a comparison of the students’ post-experiment writing and the experts’ writing. The analysis is based on content analysis, inter-rater assessment, and descriptive statistics, and shows that a meaningful level of progress has been obtained as a result of the intervention. The progress is evident in not only that students’ post-experiment writing exceeds in quality their pre-experiment writing, but also that students’ post-experiment writing has become similar to the expert writing to a great extent, with respect, in particular, to the strategic patterns of stance and engagement marking. The success of a relatively short intervention, i.e., 10 weeks, calls for implementation of courses using authentic correspondences in ESP-Science classes, or more broadly, in ESP courses in diverse disciplines (237/250).

The Discursos de la Vida in Inquisitorial Documentation Autobiography between Orality and Memory

In 1561 the General Inquisitor Fernando Valdés established a set of new instructions that systematically required defendants to depose their so-called discurso de la vida during their initial interrogation. Under the expression discurso de la vida, which was not exclusive to an Inquisitorial context, they were compelled to give an account of their own lives. This involved narrating a life story orally, which was then transcribed by scribes. While the defendants were rooted in a predominantly ‘oral culture’, clearly observable in their depositions, the scribes worked within a ‘written culture’ typical of their position in a social, legal and cultural system imposed from the top down. Thus, one confronts a singular source that has ‘fossilized’ thousands of interactions between both cultural models. The discurso de la vida was the most open-ended part of the interrogation, offering the accused the possibility of deploying a series of strategies based on their juridical and doctrinal knowledge, rhetorical skills of persuasion and ‘selective memory’. These demonstrate quite an unexpected degree of agency in such a coercive situation. According to symbolic interactionism, the best way to deal with this ‘collaborative life writing’ is to try to identify the role played by each participant in its composition. How did this interaction take place? To what extent is it possible to recover the ‘voices’ of narrators? How did the scribes or the inquisitors – both coercers and editors of these texts – bias these stories? What strategies did the protagonists deploy in their ‘performances’? These are some of the questions addressed in the article.

Instructional Note: Working the Whirlwind: SmartArt and Reflection as Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis Research Essays

This Instructional Note is designed to assist students with using the rhetorical skills they already have as a bridge to writing rhetorical analysis essays.

THE ROLE OF RHETORIC IN TEACHER VIRTUAL EXCHANGES: NAVIGATING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS

Educators’ rhetorical skills are pivotal in virtual collaboration between teachers and parents, enhancing communication clarity and overcoming cultural barriers, thereby enriching educational experience and fostering intercultural understanding. A review of scientific databases such as Academic Search Complete, ERIC, SCOPUS, and Web of Science, was conducted to identify peer-reviewed articles from 2018 onwards that explore the role of rhetoric in teacher virtual exchanges. Articles were analysed for themes, findings, biases, and research gaps. A notable finding is the lack of research on rhetoric in virtual teacher exchanges, despite its potential to overcome cultural barriers and enhance collaboration. The study reveals that effective rhetorical techniques can improve clarity, persuasiveness, and intercultural understanding in virtual exchanges, indicating a need for more research and educational programs in this area. Furthermore, the study extends to virtual communication between teachers and parents, especially with non-native speakers or those with limited proficiency in the official language. This highlights the need for teachers to use sophisticated rhetorical strategies in diverse linguistic situations to improve understanding and involvement. In summary, the research underscores the significant impact of rhetorical skills in virtual teacher exchanges, with broader implications for global collaboration and intercultural understanding in the educational sphere. Keywords: educational technology, intercultural communication, parent-teacher collaboration, rhetorical strategies, virtual exchange.

Strategy for increasing Public Speaking skills through the News Anchor method

Public speaking skills are a competitive value, which is useful, and they will become an important aspect for teenagers facing the competitive world of work in the future. The additional skills are communication skills, confidence, and learning skills that can be useful for developing soft skills using the news anchor method through the SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta literacy class. These skills are given to students in literacy classes. This activity aims to train public speaking skills and recognize one's potential by identifying rhetorical skills and confidence in appearing in public. This article aims to find strategies for improving public speaking skills through the news Anchor method with direct field studies from the author in the literacy class at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta. This writing uses qualitative descriptive research methods based on Aristotle's Rhetorical Theory. The results of this research are that the application of this learning media provides benefits for students in developing communication skills, courage to speak, techniques for conveying news well, as well as providing experience as a news anchor as a whole, both in terms of attitudes, knowledge and complete skills. This learning is good for developing students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta and allowing them to face opportunities and challenges in a competitive era like today. Improving public speaking skills through the news anchor method, including the following aspects: body language, tone of voice, or aspects of vocal processing including articulation, intonation, tempo, pauses, visual cues, or using visual cues in this case through the visual medium of a camera supported by the aspect of will to achieve ability in terms of increasing public speaking capacity using the news anchor method, it is supported by the element of willingness to gain the ability to increase public speaking capacity using the news anchor method.

Eloquent Metaphors: Leveraging Linguistic Tools for Leadership in Biden's Inaugural Political Rhetoric

This study examined the intricate use of metaphorical language by President Joe Biden inaugural address, revealing its profound impact on political rhetoric and public perception. Utilizing conceptual metaphor theory as a framework, this study thoroughly identified and analyzed different types of metaphors in Biden's speech: conceptual, structural, and cultural. The analysis revealed how these metaphors transcend mere linguistic ornamentation and serve as fundamental cognitive tools that shape collective understanding and emotional connection. Biden’s speech, which is rich in metaphors, transforms complex political and social challenges into relatable stories and images that, resonate deeply with a wide audience. This study also contextualizes metaphorical use in a broader historical and cultural context, highlighting the dynamic nature of the political discourse. Moreover, it sheds light on the educational importance of understanding metaphors, emphasizing their roles in enhancing communication and rhetorical skills in various fields. This study offers deeper insight into the strategic use of metaphors in political rhetoric and how they play a crucial role in the interplay between language, cognition, and persuasion.

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception

Frederick Douglass in the British Isles (1845–1847): A Reassessment of Approach, Achievement, and Legacy

Frederick Douglass’s first tour of the British Isles (1845–1847) proved a pivotal episode in the life of the legendary campaigner and the broader fight against slavery. Douglass made over three-hundred speaking appearances during his nineteen-month stay—sparking public debate, generating hundreds of newspaper articles, and reinvigorating an antislavery movement that had largely stalled in Britain since the 1830s. Douglass’s campaigning revealed early glimpses of his rhetorical skills and political instincts, including his successful navigation of the “white slavery” controversy and an impressive publicity blitz on the nation’s newspapers. However, Douglass’s time in Britain was not an unmitigated success. This paper examines the limitations of his work—including the failure to successfully pressurize the Free Church of Scotland into returning donations linked to slavery, and the strategic decisions that limited Douglass’s ability to deliver tangible results. In so doing, the paper attempts a more nuanced and dispassionate assessment of Douglass’s tour—evaluating his visit as a political campaign (not an oratory showcase) with successes and failures that shaped the most influential Black American of the nineteenth century.

Реторичен анализ на предизборния дебат между Еманюел Макрон и Марин Льо Пен (3 май 2017 г.)

Abstract: The article includes results of rhetorical analysis of an election debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, which was part of the presidential candidate campaign in France in 2017. The research subject is significant in terms of rhetoric, in particular presidential and presidential candidate rhetoric in France, and the traditions of debate in the 21st century media environment and political culture. The hypothesis is that the debates during the 2017 presidential election campaign in France are an important event that contributes to the construction of the individual political image, recognition and reputation of the French presidential candidates, and that the rhetorical skills of the opponents play an essential role in the presentation of concepts, causes, vision of governance in a national and European context. The rhetorical analysis is on the debate between the two contenders for the presidency, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, which took place on 3 May 2017 in Studio 107 and which was broadcast by French media and social networks. It focuses on verbal, non-verbal means and argumentation in the debate and on the rhetorical features of media and public communication. The conclusions are based on a study of the political, social, cultural, media and communicative context in France; on the analysis of the scenario, the format, the debate hosts; and on the individual characteristics of the participants’ rhetorical and communicative behaviour. Keywords: debate, presidential rhetoric, presidential candidate campaign, media, argumentation, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Rhetoric and Communications Journal, issue 58, January 2024

Digital Influence: A Review of Husain Basyaiban's Da'wah Through the TikTok Platform

The intelligence of digitalization affects the lifestyle of Muslim youth. The variety of values produced, including negative values such as moral degradation and loss of wisdom in social media behavior (digital), is often witnessed in various statuses and comments. This study aims to analyze Husain Basyaiban's da'wah rhetoric through the TikTok platform in the review of challenges and opportunities in the digital era through Aristotle's rhetoric. The research method used is a qualitative method with a library research approach. The results of this study indicate that Husain Basyaiban uses preaching rhetoric with word selection, language style based on tone, and language style based on sentence structure. Then, use the voice styles of pitch, pause, and rate. Finally, using gestures ranging from appropriate body posture and eye gaze, good appearance, and dress, as well as facial expressions and hand movements that adjust. In addition, some challenges must be faced, such as the bullying attitude of netizens, sensitivity to the environment, balancing education with da'wah content, and the need to be creative. Meanwhile, the opportunity for digital da'wah is that good rhetorical skills can persuade netizens and have implications for the number of followers as a target of da'wah.

НАВЧАННЯ СТАРШОКЛАСНИКІВ РИТОРИКИУ ПОРІВНЯЛЬНО-ЗІСТАВНОМУ ВИСТУПІ

Background. This paper focuses on the teaching of rhetoric to high school students in the Ukrainian classroom. It specifically addresses the development of rhetorical skills in 11th-grade students through compare-contrast speeches, an area that has not been extensively covered in Ukrainian language pedagogy. The authors advocate the incorporation of rhetorical education into the high school curriculum in Ukraine, as the current social and professional environment in the country demands that graduates should be proficient in communication, debate, persuasion, and information filtering to succeed in their future careers. The objective of this paper is to explore the development of rhetorical skills in 11th-grade students in a profession-oriented school through compare-contrast speeches in a Ukrainian classroom. Additionally, it aims to create and validate a series of exercises and tasks to enhance the effectiveness of developing these skills. Methodology. The study was conducted as a natural experiment involving 22 students from a professionally oriented high school in Ukraine. Author 2 served as an internship teacher and validated a series of exercises aimed at improving students' oral communication skills, critical thinking, and the use of comparecontrast rhetorical strategies. Results and discussion. The authors used different types of rhetorical exercises (preparatory, training, creative, and evaluative-analytical) to develop a tailored set of exercises for instructing compare-contrast speeches. Following the implementation of these exercises during a teaching internship, the researchers observed notable enhancements in students' rhetorical skills. The percentage of students showing high and adequate levels of rhetorical competence increased, while the proportion at the average level decreased. However, the data obtained reveal an uneven impact of the instruction on different aspects of communicative competence. Students' language and textual skills were more affected as opposed to their rhetorical skills. The overall conclusion from the research is that only targeted and systematic instruction can lead to significant improvement in rhetorical skills. Despite being proficient in language and communication, most students found mastering rhetorical techniques difficult, as it requires higher-order thinking skills and creativity.

Quick-Witted Eccentrics: The Genre and Genders of Screwball Comedy

Focusing on the type of funny woman that came to life in the Hollywood screwball comedy genre of the 1930s and 1940s, this article explores the intersections of genre and gender. The particular type of female comedic performance associated with the screwball comedy is characterized by an accelerated speed of dialogue, in which the woman demonstrates rhetorical skill, wit, and quick intelligence, as well as eccentric behavior that leads to comical situations. By taking a closer look at specific scenes from canonical screwball comedies, such as Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, and His Girl Friday, as well as less widely known films, such as Four’s a Crowd and Take a Letter, Darling, the article demonstrates how the comic effect stems from the incongruity between the woman’s gender performance and conventional scripts of femininity, without however making the woman the object of the joke. Instead, the woman’s actions serve as the motor of the comic by radically disrupting the man’s sense of authority and the patriarchal order, by extension. The article argues that by featuring women as agents who disrupt the established or conventional order of things, the screwball comedy genre makes possible the emergence of a new way (or ways) of inhabiting femininity.

Pentingnya Keterampilan Retorika Da’i di Era Society 5.0 dalam Efektivitas Keberhasilan Dakwah Kepada Mad’u

The era of society 5.0 is an era where almost all human work is assisted by sophisticated machines or technology that makes it easier for humans to do their jobs. In this era of all-technology, preachers are required to have rhetorical skills and a qualified ability to use technology as a medium in conveying tausyiah or da'wah to mad'u. Skills in using technology will pave the way for preachers to be more flexible in conveying their da'wah without fear of being limited by space and time. Da'wah skills on social media can take the form of interesting writing or videos that make mad'u interested in reading and watching what the preachers convey where this is the key to how effective the da'wah delivered to mad'u is.
 Keyword :Era of society 5.0, skills, effectiveness

Features of the use of critical thinking skills in countering manipulation in modern communication.

The subject of the study is critical thinking. The article is devoted to the study of the role of critical thinking in modern communication conditions. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of using critical thinking skills in countering manipulative influences both in the professional sphere and in personal communicative interaction. The article substantiates that critical thinking is one of the most important skills in the modern world; the importance of critical thinking skills for effectively processing large amounts of incoming information, as well as for building successful communication, is clarified; the specifics and features of the application of critical thinking skills in the context of communicative interaction are considered; the role of logical as well as rhetorical components in communication is substantiated; options for countering communicative manipulations and incorrect communicative influences are proposed. The article uses methods of comparative analysis, contextual analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification, as well as the logical method. The article proposes a division of communicative goals according to the type of statements. Particular attention is focused on analyzing the situation of the motivating communicative goal. The article clarifies the meaning of the following concepts: communication, 4K competencies, critical thinking, non-critical thinking, manipulation, logical, psychological and rhetorical argumentation strategies, communicative purpose, rhetoric, ad hominem arguments, ad rem arguments, deductive inferences, inductive inferences. The article proposes methods and tools for strengthening the skills of building effective communicative interaction. Methods of countering manipulative communicative influences are also analyzed both from the point of view of logical science and rhetorical skill. The article will be useful for both undergraduate and graduate students studying rhetoric, argumentation theory, communication techniques, and a wide range of readers.

The Prominence of Rhetoric in Japanese University English Oral Communication Courses

Due to a rapidly globalizing world, there has been a recent resurgence in the demand for university graduates entering the workforce who understand and utilize spoken English rhetorical strategies and techniques. These rhetorical skills are necessary in a wide range of fields (e.g., advertising, communication, international relations, politics, psychology, etc.), yet rhetoric rarely features in EFL or ESL curriculums. With the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan emphasizing the need for English education to specifically foster the development of oral communication skills through the Global Human Resources (GHR) project (2018), there is a definite need for integrating instruction on English rhetorical strategies and techniques into the curricula of higher education. However, explicit rhetorical instruction in EFL and ESL curriculums in Japan almost exclusively focuses on written genres, such as essay writing. The core research question framing this exploratory study is: How prominent is instruction on rhetoric in Japanese university English oral communication courses? This qualitative study firstly examines if rhetoric-based instruction is addressed in a sample of English language oral communication textbooks, before documenting the language learning experiences of ten Japanese university students. An amalgamation of the data reveals a dearth of explicit rhetoric-based instruction in Japanese university English language oral communication courses. The implications of this finding are discussed, and suggestions are then proffered on how to better equip Japanese university graduates with practical English language rhetorical tools so that they may play a more active role in the globalizing world.

Developing speech culture in law students

The article discusses the methods of developing law students’ speech culture. The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that highly professional personnel are needed in various structures of the law enforcement system. Therefore, a future lawyer, along with possessing professional knowledge and skills, must be competent in various types and forms of business language. Introducing law students to the norms of speech culture involves the correct and appropriate use of language tools in various fields andconditions of communication. The aim of the study is to establish the level of first–year law students’ proficiency in speech culture and rhetorical skills, as well as to elaborate modern methods that contribute to the development of students’ communicative speech competence. The results of the study show that students’ proficiency in the norms of the Russian literary language and rhetorical techniques is not good enough. These data enable us to outline further work on improving the literacy level and the formation of communicative skills in law students. In order to improve the preparation of future specialists, it is necessary to use a variety of forms of classroom work: presentations, role-playing, discussions, etc. This research will be useful for students – future lawyers and teachers of the Russian language and speech culture.

Rhetorical Skills and Renaissance Literature

Abstract: The renaissance witnessed both a large expansion of teaching and composition of rhetoric manuals and a flowering of literature in the sixteenth century. This essay asks what rhetorical theory contributed to renaissance literature. Where some earlier accounts, for example by Cave, Eden and Vickers, focus on the impact of one or two rhetorical doctrines, this essay argues that renaissance writers drew on, adapted and combined a wide range of rhetorical doctrines in thinking about how to persuade and move their audiences. In order to make this argument it sets out sixteen skills taught by renaissance rhetoric which writers could use: thinking about the audience; self-presentation; reusing reading in writing; style and amplification; emotion; pleasing; narrative; character; argument; examples; comparison; contraries; proverbs and axioms; disposition; beginning; and ending. It analyses texts by Erasmus, Tasso, Sidney, Montaigne and Shakespeare to show how the greatest renaissance writers adapted and combined ideas from rhetoric.

The Effectiveness of Using Some Active Learning Strategies in the Developing of Rhetorical Skills Among First Grade Secondary Students in the Republic of Yemen

هدفت الدراسة إلى معرفة أثر استخدام بعض استراتيجيات التعلم النشط في تنمية المهارات البلاغية لدى طلبة الصف الأول الثانوي في الجمهورية اليمنية، ولتحقيق هذا الهدف استخدم الباحث المنهجين الوصفي وشبه التجريبي، وأعدَّ قائمة بالمهارات البلاغيَّة، واختبارًا تحصيليًّا، وبرنامجًا تعليميًّا وفق استراتيجيات التَّعلُّم النَّشط، وتكونت عينة البحث من (111). طالبًا وطالبة من طلبة الصف الأول الثانوي بأمانة العاصمة، تم اختيارها بطريقة قصدية، وقسمت إلى مجموعتين: الأولى تجريبية درست باستخدام البرنامج القائم على التعلم النشط، والثانية ضابطة درست باستخدام الطريقة الاعتيادية، وتوصَّلت الدراسة إلى النتائج الآتية: - وجود فروق دالة إحصائيًّا عند مستوى الدلالة (0.05). بين متوسطي درجات طلبة المجموعتين التجريبيَّة والضابطة في التطبيق البعدي لاختبار المهارات البلاغيَّة لصالح المجموعة التجريبيّة. - وجود فروق دالة إحصائيًّا عند مستوى الدلالة (0.05). بين متوسطي درجات طلبة المجموعة التجريبيَّة في التطبيقين القبلي والبعدي لاختبار المهارات البلاغيَّة لصالح التطبيق البعدي. - وجود فروق ذات دالة إحصائيًّا عند مستوى الدلالة (0.05). بين متوسطي درجات طلبة المجموعة التجريبيَّة (الذكور والإناث). في التطبيق البعدي لاختبار المهارات البلاغيَّة لصالح الإناث.