Vocab Ch. 1
Tells us what someone is thinking or feeling without words.
Non-Verbal Behavior
End of the Middle ages. Great intellectual and cultural movement of the revival of interest in classical culture
Rennisance
An argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated.
Enthymeme
Creator of Law.
Draco and later scholars who refined the laws.
Involves verbal and nonverbal behaviors, enacted by communicators, that are interpreted with meaning by others.
Message
A style of rhetorics that favored ornate embellishment over clarity and precision.
Silver Latin
Expresses the view that the meaning and value of human beliefs and behaviors have no absolute reference
Psychological Relativism
Creator of Dialectical Reasoning.
Zeno of Elea
Made Pure Democracy in Athens.
Pericles
The process of taking an idea or mental image, turning it into words, then speaking those words to convey a message.
Encoding
The art or practice of making a speech before an audience. Delivering a persuasive argument.
Oratory
A system made by Draco that sorted Greece’s laws into an organized system. Took laws from language to written.
Codification
Teacher of rhetoric before converting to Christianity. Argued rhetoric was needed to explain the Christian message. Called the "Last Classical Man" and "First Medieval Man."
St. Augustine
An Epistemological Thinker who published “Elements of Rhetoric” in 1828
Richard Whately
Our belief system, what we refer to as true or false.
Ontology
A debate used to resolve contradictory ideas or elements logically, establishing truths on both sides rather than disproving one or another.
Dialect
(To praise or blame someone) Speeches to inform or give speeches of praise
Epideictic
Greatest Greek orator, one of the most important leaders of the Renaissance and influence of the Petrarch, single most important author, wrote De Inventione and De Oratore.
Cicero
An Irish Elocutionists thinker who wanted to reform the educational system of Britain to correct the serious neglect of rhetorical delivery-elocution
Thomas Sheridan
Our methods of completing tasks and solving everyday problems.
Praxeology
What was the name of “The National Communication Association” in 1914
Speech Communication Association - 1914
Primarily teacher of political excellence who dealt with the practical and immediate issues of the day and led instances to psychological relativism.
Sophists
Believed the principles of rhetoric evolve from the principles of nature - published “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres”
Hugh Blair
Talked about persuasion and government. How democracy is ruled by it and vice versa. (2 people, name at least 1)
R.T Oliver and Ian Harvey