Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9783319017990
ISBN-13 : 3319017993
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Synopsis Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero by : Gábor Tahin

This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.

Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero

Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 3319018000
ISBN-13 : 9783319018003
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Synopsis Heuristic Strategies in the Speeches of Cicero by : Gabor Tahin

This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A new theory is required because Greek and Roman rhetoric cannot provide detailed answers to problems of strategic argumentation in the analysis of speeches. Building on scholarship in Ciceronian oratory, this book moves beyond the extant terminology and employs a concept of heuristic reasoning derived from the psychology of decision making and mathematical problem solving. The author analyses selected passages from Cicero’s forensic speeches where arguments of probability are deployed, and shows that the Sophistic concept of probability can link ancient rhetoric and modern theories of argumentation. Six groups of heuremes are identified, each of which represents a form of probabilistic reasoning by which the orator plays upon the perception of the jurors.

Heuristic Rhetoric

Heuristic Rhetoric
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9783030984823
ISBN-13 : 3030984826
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Heuristic Rhetoric by : Gábor Tahin

This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic rhetoric. The new method has evolved to fulfil the need at universities, government departments, political organisations, business enterprises and other public institutions for a modern practical alternative to classical rhetoric, which is, in the author’s view, no longer capable of giving a complete description of contemporary, predominantly mediatised, forms of public persuasive discourse, whilst other competing disciplines, such as critical discourse analysis or strategic manoeuvring, have not yet produced a set of tools, which have the comprehensive nature and practical orientation of Classical Greek and Roman rhetorical system. The book expounds heuristic rhetoric as an inter-disciplinary method to develop advanced skills of critical and strategic reasoning. Applying a novel set of principles for the strategic analysis of persuasive reasoning in complex rhetorical situations, the method emphasizes preparing and continuously adjusting argumentation according to the demands of unpredictable circumstances.

Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119

Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119
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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781783745920
ISBN-13 : 1783745924
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Synopsis Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119 by : Ingo Gildenhard

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Philippic 2 was a weapon in that war. Conceived as Cicero’s response to a verbal attack from Antony in the Senate, Philippic 2 is a rhetorical firework that ranges from abusive references to Antony’s supposedly sordid sex life to a sustained critique of what Cicero saw as Antony’s tyrannical ambitions. Vituperatively brilliant and politically committed, it is both a carefully crafted literary artefact and an explosive example of crisis rhetoric. It ultimately led to Cicero’s own gruesome death. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, vocabulary aids, study questions, and an extensive commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Ingo Gildenhard’s volume will be of particular interest to students of Latin studying for A-Level or on undergraduate courses. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis to encourage critical engagement with Cicero, his oratory, the politics of late-republican Rome, and the transhistorical import of Cicero’s politics of verbal (and physical) violence.

Understanding Public Speaking

Understanding Public Speaking
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781000007152
ISBN-13 : 1000007154
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Public Speaking by : Braj Mohan

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques. The volume: Critically examines strategies of persuasive oratory. Draws on extensive investigation of a corpus of famous public speeches in history. Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills. The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants, lawyers, business and corporate professionals, and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics, and political and business communication.

The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon

The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781000514902
ISBN-13 : 1000514900
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon by : Subrata Dasgupta

By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies. The Renaissance has attracted the attention of distinguished scholars from many different vantage points – political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural. In this volume, Subrata Dasgupta sheds an alternative light on the Renaissance by considering it as a creative phenomenon. To be creative is to make history by producing material and/or abstract artifacts that are both new and consequential; to be creative also entails drawing on history and on the culture of the time. Most significantly, the creative process occurs in individual minds: it is a cognitive process of a very special kind. Beginning with a ‘prehistory’ set in classical Greece and medieval Islam, this book explores a variety of inventions and discoveries through the 14th–16th centuries, mainly in Italy, in humanities, painting, architecture, craft technology, anatomy, natural science, and engineering. This book will be of interest not only to Renaissance scholars but also to students interested in Renaissance history and the nature of the creative tradition.

Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49

Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49
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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781783740772
ISBN-13 : 1783740779
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49 by : Ingo Gildenhard

In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only man to live up to such lofty standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Cicero's prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.

Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse

Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0567028119
ISBN-13 : 9780567028112
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse by : Thomas H. Olbricht

A collection of essays from the Heidelberg conference on rhetoric and the New Testament.

Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education

Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9781135104955
ISBN-13 : 1135104956
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education by : David Gold

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.