Timeline for Is the rhetorical perspective out of place in English Language Usage-StackExchange?
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| Jan 8, 2013 at 1:02 | comment | added | rhetorician | @Bill Franke. Thanks for the analogy. As Aristotle pointed out in his definition of rhetoric ("the faculty of determining in a given case the available means of persuasion"), public speakers--and by extension, musicians, authors, lawyers, teachers, politicians, ad infinitum--can determine what they believe to be the available means of persuasion for a given audience, but if they fail either to determine the right means, or fail to use the right means artfully, they won't achieve their purpose, whether it's to persuade, inform, entertain, or inspire. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 16:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/286865205697343488 | ||
| Jan 3, 2013 at 12:51 | comment | added | user21497 | I'm all in favor of talking about the persuasive use of language in EL&U. I often assert that the best usage is the one that works, i.e., that produces the speaker's or writer's desired result, & that it often means that grammar takes a back seat. Jimmie Lunceford, Harry James, & Ella Fitzgerald recorded in 1939: "'Tain't what you bring it's the way that you bring it // 'Tain't what you swing it's the way that you swing it // 'Tain't what you sing) - it's the way that you sing it // (That's what gets results)" [From a song by Melvin “Sy” Oliver and James “Trummy” Young] | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 8:46 | comment | added | tchrist Mod | @rhetorician Thanks, and congratulations. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 18:50 | vote | accept | rhetorician | ||
| Jan 1, 2013 at 17:22 | comment | added | rhetorician | Mitch: will do. Thanks for your response. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 17:21 | comment | added | rhetorician | tchrist: As much as I enjoy doing good deeds, I'm afraid I cannot devote the time to editing missing tag wikis, as I am currently a full-time student again (at the age of 62). In lieu of performing that editing work, I'll simply refer you to the "Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis," which can be found at <grammar.about/od/rhetoricaltoolkit/Tool_kit_for_Rhetorical_Analysis.htm> I hope this helps. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 17:11 | comment | added | rhetorician | simchona: probably both. I'll give an example of a question, later. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 16:38 | comment | added | Mitch | Bring em on. But make sure they are at least somewhat answerable rather than just discussion topics (sadly the format here doesn't work well for discussions). | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 21:45 | comment | added | tchrist Mod | With your background, then if you would like to do a Good Deed, you might please consider editing the missing tag wikis for the various tags relating to rhetorical figures: anacoluthon, antanaclasis, antimeria, antiphrasis, asyndeton, catachresis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, irony, litotes, paraprosdokian, paronomasia, polysyndeton, syllepsis, synecdoche, and zeugma all exist, but have no tag wikis. Please help us out and add ones for those. Thanks. | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 20:58 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | user10893 | Since this is new to me, are you talking about asking questions or answering them? If asking, could you give a sample question? | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 19:27 | history | asked | rhetorician | CC BY-SA 3.0 |