Chapter Two Communication and Power: A Cultural History

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The five canons of rhetoric
  1. Invention
  2. Arrangement
  3. Style
  4. Memory
  5. Delivery
Invention
The content of a message
Arrangement
The organization of a message
Style
The mode or genre of a message
Memory
The remembering of a message
Delivery
The presentation of a message
Rhetoric
Defined by Aristotle as "uncovering, in any given situation, the available means of persuasion."
Ethos
Rhetorical appeal that targets a listener's sense of the speaker's credibility.
Logos
Rhetorical appeal that targets a listener's logical reasoning.
Pathos
Rhetorical appeal that targets a listener's emotions.
Sophists
Teachers that believed that what mattered most was not what actually happened but, rather, how people presented their case, explanation, or reasoning for what happened.
Thesis
An integral component to successful communication, this is the overarching claim of a message.
Paradigms
Worldviews or ways of seeing.
Elocution
Period in history of communication studies filed when rhetoric became a field that focused only on delivery and style.
Invention
In Cicero's canons of rhetoric, this component is a message's content.