Contemporary Rhetorical Analysis Of The Telos

Contemporary Rhetorical Theory- Fall 2015 Rui Zhang Submission Date: 2015/12/02 *All the works below for the exam are done independently. No cooperation or discussion with anybody else. 1. Williamson is an example of genus deliberativum. Deliberative genre is used in forum or speech to persuade the audience to do something or believe in something in future. Williamson’s speech is a typical deliberative genre. He makes the speech on a public forum to persuade voters to agree the marriage bill amendment, and his telos is to take advantage of this—to persuade more people support his policy. The content is an uncertain decision about future. He provides several reasons to support his idea so his activity is basically exhortation and persuasion. 2. The telos in Williamson is the advantages that he gets more voters supporting his policy after his speech. The telos in SAIH is about the honorable. SAIH clip is a genus demonstrativum. It makes a sarcastic retort to reflect the present situation that some western people who called themselves â€Å"volunteer† are not really helping Africa. Thus the clip is to blame this situation. 3. He violates Commandment 4 the relevance rule that standpoints may not be defended by non-argumentation or argumentation that is not relevant to the standpoint. In his speech, he argues the fire burning eternity sentence on a letter he received. However, this is not relevant to the marriage bill. There no relevance to his argumentation that support the marriageShow MoreRelatedTheories of Organizational Behavior10512 Words   |  43 Pagesmethods, and levels of analysis. Some of the major ways of division are into modern, symbolic, and postmodern or micro organizational behavior—which refers to individual and group dynamics in an organizational setting and macro strategic management and organizational theory which studies whole organizations and industries. Concepts of meso - primarily interested in power, culture, and the networks of individuals and units in organizations and field level analysis which study how whole populationsRead MoreTrobriand Islanders-Malinowski and Weiner10855 Words   |  44 Pages(1976, 20). This distinction, she later observed, was an attempt to escape the connotations of two separate spheres constituted by terms like private/public or nature/culture (1986, 97). Rather than eschewing such invidious Western dichotomies her analysis ultimately reinforces them, by articulating them with another—eternal/historical. Such Eurocentric dichotomies typically presume that the private or domestic sphere is outside history (see Jolly and Macintyre 1989) and that womens nature is notRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagesin this respect you will find this book timely, interesting and valuable. Peter Holdt Christensen, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark McAuley et al.’s book is thought-provoking, witty and highly relevant for understanding contemporary organizational dilemmas. The book engages in an imaginative way with a wealth of organizational concepts and theories as well as provides insightful examples from the practical world of organizations. The authors’ sound scholarship and transparent