This week during class we went over last week’s
article, "Materiality and Genre". Apparently, I misunderstood
the law part of the article. According to my classmates, the discourse community
is not among the jurors, but from what the lawyer is communicating to the
jurors. For example a lawyer might use “big words” that might confuse the jurors
to mislead them and use more “elementary” words for something that will benefit
his case and win the jurors over. I’m still wondering if there can be a discourse
community among jurors that can also negatively affect the verdict of a case.
Wednesday August
28th was the 50th anniversary of the great Dr. King’s “I
Have a Dream” speech. I was very happy when Professor Dadurka told the class
that would be watching the ground breaking speech. During this speech the class
had to analyze the rhetorical strategies Dr. King used to make his speech more effective.
I noticed that he used a lot of repetition throughout his entire speech. The
first time Dr. King used repetition was when he was speaking about the “one
hundred years” that African Americans were emancipated but were still oppressed
by the color of their skin. The use of repetition made the people realized “wow,
it’s really been this long since we’ve been freed, and nothing has changed”. This
realization inspires the people to take their rights into their own hands as
they rightfully deserve. As you can see, use of repetition also plays a large
part on the people’s emotions, logos. I enjoyed this class very much and I learned
a lot. I really like that my classmates and I can voice our opinions on a
certain topic. LOVE IT!
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