Rhetoric in Ancient Greek
Read: Crowley and Hawhee “Ancient Rhetorics: Their Differences and the Differences They Make” (especially pg 14-end, “Language as Power”) (library e-reserve)
Read: “Delivering Your Speech” (library e-reserve)
Ancient Greek
- community vs individuality
- believes in subjectivity and no objectivity
Aristotle definition of rethoric:
Planned and specific language speech to convince someone Tool for civic evaluation of ideas pathway to good decision making being open to possibilities to understand truth remedy power imbalance
Problems with imperial evidence: - isolated facts don’t mean a lot when we don’t have any network of interpretation - derive from people senses which can be altered in our mind, it can interfere with the truth, fragile and messy - ex: family values - people are selective in what they present
Representative of Language - Greek believes language is an art, its own thing, not conveying thoughts - Greek believes language is closest thing that represents your thought: speech - guide to your thoughts and actions to make distinctions between things
Define copia:
- modern rhetoric vs past
- using lots, volume
Read: “Delivering Your Speech” (library e-reserve)
What you say and how you say things: delivery in a coherent way Tools available to deliver: - facial - body - voice
HOMEWORK
3 ways of speaking
- celebrate linguistic diversity
- purpose is to communicate with the right language to the right people
- what it means to speak as a black american woman, often mocked and called uneducated because of their accent
Don’t insist on English! Patricia Ryan
- globalization of english
- importance of communicate across generations, but today language are dying
- English = barrier for people to come study in the US or UK (who has the best universities) they need to pass an english test TOEFL. not accessible to poor people who might be genius or have potential.
- The best jobs goes to people in the Western world/universities.
- Sometimes a language opens door and teaches you to think in other way because they are different and thus you think in different ways. We can achieve and learn so much more by cooperating.
- celebrate diversity, learn from others
- Language is culture and history