{"id":14267,"date":"2012-11-09T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2012\/11\/09\/modes-of-persuasion.html"},"modified":"2012-11-09T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T18:37:02","slug":"modes-of-persuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/11\/09\/modes-of-persuasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Modes of persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have no training and but little skill in rhetoric, but I find the bits of it that I've seen fascinating, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower3\/rrrhetoric.html\">names for things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I recently learned that there are traditionally <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modes_of_persuasion\">three modes of persuasion<\/a>: ethos, pathos, and logos.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I see that list, I can't help thinking &ldquo;And d'Artagnan!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(I now see that Vardibidian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/11\/19\/13906.html\">made the same joke<\/a> in a blog-entry title a year ago, but subtly enough that I didn't get it at the time. I imagine there've been many other renditions of this joke over the years, but this one is mine.)<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, this entry is an example of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/02\/28\/323.html\">Indexing Problem<\/a>, in that if you were to do a search for [musketeers] on my site, this entry wouldn't come up. Well, now it will, 'cause I just mentioned it. Is there a name for the rhetorical device of using metacommentary about search issues to add a keyword to a page? Maybe we need a new glossary of computational rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>(&ldquo;Online rhetoric&rdquo; would probably be a more accurate term for what I'm talking about, but the phrase &ldquo;computational rhetoric&rdquo; is too appealing to pass up.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no training and but little skill in rhetoric, but I find the bits of it that I&#8217;ve seen fascinating, especially the names for things. I recently learned that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puns","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}