You must change your decorum based on your audience’s expectations because you want to make them feel comfortable to be able to move people away from their current opinion. In addition, different audiences have different expectations of you, so you must meet each one by changing your decorum.
Eminem’s 8 Mile is an effective example because despite the fact that Eminem is white while everyone else is black in the room, he is seen as more trustworthy than his black opponent due to the fact that the opponent once attended a prep school. Eminem …show more content…
Virtue or cause means that the audience believes you, the persuader, share their values. Practical wisdom or craft is that you appear to know the right thing to do on every occasion. Disinterest means that you are free from bias, but still care about the audience’s interest rather than your own.
Lincoln decorum is winning over the audience by talking the audience’s talk. Essentially, you are using the audience’s language/talking the way they talk to communicate with them to make them comfortable and even like you.
Aristotle said that emotions come from people’s beliefs about what we value, what we think we know, and what we expect. This is an accurate statement because the beliefs we hold influence the emotions we feel toward certain things, such as feeling sad or happy over a loss in which one may feel sad that they couldn’t win while the other might be happy due to learning from the loss. Another difference could be if one expects to lose and loses doesn’t feel as sad as someone who expects to win and then loses. The difference in the emotions comes from what they …show more content…
You can use these in everyday life to protect yourself against politicians, salespeople, diet books, doctors, and your own children. You can determine if someone is committing a fallacy and lower his or her trustworthiness.
The three identifiers associated with logical fallacies are bad proof, wrong number of choices/bad conclusion, and disconnect between proof and conclusion.
The introduction is the ethos part, which wins you the audience’s commonplace. This essentially wins you over the audience.
The narration is the statement of facts. This is where you provide relevant facts. You can tell the history of the matter, list your facts and figures, or both.
The division is where you list the points you and your opponent agree and disagree. You can also define the issue.
The proof is where you get into the actual argument by setting out your argument packet and examples.
The refutations is where you destroy your opponent’s argument by countering it.
The conclusion is where you restate your main points and get emotional (if you want