Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Persuasions techniques
In all forms of communications we use one or multiple persuasions techniques. These three techniques are as follows: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. Logos appeals to logic while Pathos appeals to emotion and Ethos use a creditable source to appeals to the audience. The TED Talks' video "Love-- You're Doing It Wrong" and the essay "Strangers" by Toni Morrison both use all three in their works to appeal to their audiences. In Mr. Morrison's essay he use Pathos to covey to the reader the emptiness he was left with when the old women did not return. The use of emotion to strengthen his argument against the women. Morrison also use Ethos we he references Jean-Paul Sartre's work. He uses jean as a creditable source that agrees with his point. In the TED talks video, Yann Dall'Aglio, use these techniques as well. Thought the video is not in English the translation relates Yann's intellect through his diction and grammar. This is a case of Ethos in that his communication method gives credit to him and his argument. When Yann refers to "the young woman that must remain chaste before marriage" he is using Pathos. He is asking his audience to refer to the emotion the situation provokes. This use of emotion to support his point strengthens his argument. In both pieces persuasion is the key to win over the audience. Through the use of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos this can efficiently achieved.
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In analyzing the author/speaker of both the video and essay, the video demonstrates a clear persuasion to the audience that love involves value and that you must be desired in order to be valued. His opinion about love seems so persuasive in the fact that love is defined as the desire of desired. Simply put into terms that the reader can understand is that in order for us to be satisfied we must be desirable. Love is about being valued and he says the same sense when he talks about breakups and how we wither in our sorrows because we lose the feeling of attachment. Morrison’s purpose for writing was to inform about the difference in our society based upon looks and appearances. This was to show a lesson to the reader that looks can be deceiving and we must keep our hearts closed and we shouldn’t let people in without the knowledge of knowing them.
ReplyDeleteIn Yann Dall’Aglio’s Ted Talks video, Love You’re Doing It Wrong, he starts his video by using the rhetorical strategy of Analogy. He compares an escalope to his wife. He says “[He] can love escalopes” and that “[He] can love his wife” however, it is not the same love. When he says he loves an escalope it is one-directional but when he says he loves his wife it goes both ways. I believe that this is Pathos because it has a lot to do with positive emotions. In the story Strangers by Toni Morrison, she writes that “The love that prophets have urged us to offer the stranger is the same love that Jean-Paul Sartre could reveal as the very mendacity of Hell.” In this sentence the author using an analogy to compare the words “Love” to “Hell”. I believe that this is also Pathos because of the references to “Love” and “Hell”.
ReplyDeleteYann Dall'Aglio uses a variety of persuasion techniques in his ted talk, Love You're Doing It Wrong. Logos, Ethos, and Pathos are included throughout his speech. Firstly he uses ethos to connect the audience to a central view on love and displaying tenderness. Logos is then used to establish a logical connection between love/desire to the modern world, breaking down the view of materialism and transforming it into a positive 'possessing things to love them' point of view. Pathos is used throughout the ted talk in the form of examples. Discussing his relationship with his wife and how this new concept of tenderness plays a role in heartbreak.
ReplyDeleteStrangers uses pathos to persuade the reader. The essay uses pathos because it is referring to the emotional conflict lying within ones self. For example Toni Morrison, argues the reason she was longing for Mother Something was because she, “was longing for and missing some aspect of [herself] and that there are no strangers.” Toni Morrison is using this emotional conflict within ourselves to illustrate that we hide versions of ourselves and tuck them away while still knowing they are deep inside of us.
ReplyDeleteIn Love- Your Doing it Wrong, there is also a pathos way of persuasion. For example, Yan Doll’Aglio starts to talk about the difference of love between scallops and love for his wife. The difference is there is an emotional desire between both him and his wife versus with the scallop there is just a one-way desire. He uses the emotions between him and his wife to explain to audience the difference between two way love and one way love
In both Toni Morrison’s “Strangers” and the speech Yann Dall'Aglio: Love -- you're doing it wrong, both the speaker and writer uses pathos as their rhetorical device that helped them get their point across. In the speech Love—you’re doing it wrong, pathos are brought out in the very beginning when he asks, “how do we become and remain desirable?” When he asked this he is appealing to the need that we all have to belong and to feel like we are not meaningless. By saying this he is also bringing our fear of being alone out of the shadows. Toni Morrison uses pathos throughout his whole essay. It is apparent in the beginning as you feel sympathy for her when she never sees this potential friend of hers again. She also uses pathos at the end of the essay as she describes the “sacredness of the human race” as the reason we tend to romanticize others.
ReplyDeleteThe strongest rhetorical device used in Toni Morrison's essay is that of pathos. The main idea being argued in "Strangers" is the sentiment felt within ourselves. The woman is looking for someone to fill the empty space in her when in reality she's hiding away a part of herself that makes her whole. In the speech by Yan Doll'Aglio, the speaker uses emotional events between him and his wife to express pathos.
ReplyDeleteYann Doll'Aglio and Toni Morrison both use all three types of rhetorical devices in their readings. Morrison mainly stays using pathos but she also includes ethos and logos as well. Yann Doll'Aglio mainly uses Ethos. He tries to reach out to the audience on a more personal level by including information about himself and his personal life. He often talks about his wife to the audience. I think that this is a strong way to persuade the audience because it gives them an inside look into what he is trying to tell us.
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