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Human Comm Theory
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Undergraduate 1
09/23/2008

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Rheoricians
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Teachers of Communication
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Rhetoric
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Study of Communication
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Plato
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a great greek philosopher other than aristotle
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Corax and Tisias

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The study of communication is always prompted by practical problems

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Classical Period
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900 years-5th century BC to 4th century AD.  It flowered under athenian democracy and lasted through roman empire and ended with the advent of christianity
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Cicero
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a prominent roman politician was cpmsodered tp ne rome's finest orator. He met his death when fighting marc antony after the death of julius caesar
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Canons of rhetoric

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Cicero made many famous speeches, and were eventually made into the five canons of rhetoric: invention,style,arrangement,memory,delivery
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Invention
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Deciding on the subject matter of one's speech and discovering information and arguments that would lead to sound conclusions
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Style
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The proper way to convey the message
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Arrangement

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To order ideas effectively
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Memory
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The ability to hold content, style and arrangement in one's mind
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Delivery
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To use the right tone of voice that is pleasant or the message of the speech would be undetermined
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Plain Style
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built ethos by convincing them of good character, good sense and trustworthyness
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Middle Style
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emphasized logos by impressing the audience with the soundness of speakers position
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Vigorous Style
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from pathos and pulled out all the stop and was eloquent and emotional
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Quintilian
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defined rhetoric as the study of the good man speaking well
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Medieval and Renasaince Period
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400-1600 ad - major rhetorical acts were writing and preaching. Mainly focused on prescriptive, not theoretical
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Natural Signs
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Created By God
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Conventional Sign
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Created by humans and harder to interpret
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Augustine
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a major christian theorist, argued that it would be foolish for thruth to takes its stand unarmed against falsehood
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Empirically
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the rise of scientific method meant that ideas and arguments should be based on observation
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Classical Approach
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set out to recover the insights of the great classical rhetoricians adapting to modern times
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Psychological/epistemological Approach
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investigation through the relationship of communication and thought, trying to understand the scientific way how people can influence through speech
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Bellestristic Approach
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focused on writing and speaking as art forms, developing critical standards for judging drama, poetry and oratory
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Elocutionary Approach
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designed eaborate systems of instruction to improve speakers verbal and nonverbal presentation
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Francis Bacon
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created the four "idols" or distortions of thinking

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Idols of the Tribe
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fallacies of thinking do to human nature
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Idols of the cave
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indivisual prejudices that we bring with us because of our own background
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Idols of the Marketplace
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imprecise use of language
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Idols of the Theatre
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fallacies occur when we accept fashionable ideas critically

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Rene DeCartes and John Locke
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trut could only be obtained only through discourse that would be through understanding of human rationality
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Scientific Method

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a belief in controlled laboratory expterientation and careful, objective measurement
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Source Credibility
Definition
the extent that you sound believeable and compentent
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