Apr 10, 2016

1) The four ways that types of body rhetoric are embodied argumentation, street theater, rhetoric style, and vibe as bodily emanation. Embodied argumentation describes how are our body can be used as an argument. Street theater describes political protests such as protests. Rhetorical style describes the overall look and feel of our communicative gestures. Vibe as bodily emanation describes the energy that emanates from our bodies. 

2) The four ways that bodily argumentation expands the realm of rhetoric are call to action, provides more rhetorical options, empowering, and highlights the craft of everyday life. They are essential in an argument because they give normal everyday people more power when it comes to standing up for themselves. 

3) The five steps for cultivating style are observation, reflection, experimentation, and application. Observation lets us just look at yours and other styles of communication. Reflection is the time you need to judge what you observe and consider the pros and cons of the different ways of communication. Experimentation lets you test styles of communication in order to figure out what suites you. Finally, application lets you apply those styles in a real situation where you will have no control over which style you want to use, instead the style will just come out naturally. 


4) Individual body arguments are when you use your body in order to make arguments. Collective body arguments are when you go to protests and commit actions. Many people use individual body arguments in order to raise awareness to the public. I have seen people use tattoos as a way to write a message to the public. 

Apr 2, 2016

The Power of Language

1) Communication plays a big role in society. The way people communicate with each other is through language. Language plays a big role because it allows people to understand each other. Language is a verbal sound or gesture movement that allows two or more objects to communicate with each other. Language is different throughout the world, therefore not everyone can have the same perspective on a subject. Sometimes language can be manipulate to the point where someone can say something in order to influence other peoples decisions. The media uses this a lot in order to get people to agree on their view. The way the media uses language is by only covering parts of a story they want others to know about. 

2) The five guidelines to language are to identify the language, address the context, draw out the social and political implications, provide an alternative language, and circulate your analysis. Although those are the simple guidelines to language, not everyone follows them. People don’t follow them because they're too lazy, don’t know how, or are easily persuaded. In my opinion, the only ones how would not be able to follow guidelines are people who are not educated. On the other hand there are a couple of people who do follow them, like myself. We follow them by thinking critically on who and what we choose to believe. 

3) In the novel 1984 the quote "War is peace; Freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength" the author Orwel is trying to show how much power the government has over the people. The government is in charge of everything and the people have no say. The government believe that war would solve everything, but in reality it would lead to an endless war. In addition, the people following the government don't ever stop to think about the actions made by the government. The language in social media follows that quote by allowing people to believe only what that government believes. Popular news show cast only unimportant news in order to avoid people being aware of the actions the government is doing.


4) The media influences the world using propaganda by allowing people to believe what someone is saying just because it is popular. People in the world follow the most popular trends and believe what they see on television or social media just because it is popular. How popular something is can sometimes determine whether something is credible or not.