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Feminist Rhetorical Strategies (Borchers)

Who uses it?

I don't think that us kids used this strategy very often when trying to get our parents to change their views on something.

Mom and Dad both said that this describes the way that they try to speak to us kids when they want us to come to a conclusion.

What is it?

5. All individuals must be willing to yield their position to others.

4. Each individual must work at communication, since it is a difficult achievement.

3. Those involved must feel equal in power, even though there may be differences among them.

2. All involved must understand that there are differences among those who participate. The parties will either have differing levels of knowledge about the topic or they will have disagreements about the matter at hand.

1. No one involved in the rhetorical situation should intend to persuade or enlighten others. Instead all should be committed to creating an atmosphere in which change for both or all individuals can take place.

Aristotelian Rhetoric (Christof Rapp)

Logos - We persuade by the argument itself when we demonstrate or seem to demonstrate that something is the case. (Induction is a method of reasoning that moves from specific instances to a general conclusion. Also called inductive reasoning. ... In rhetoric, the equivalent of induction is the accumulation of examples.)

Pathos - Thus, the orator has to arouse emotions exactly because emotions have the power to modify our judgments: to a judge who is in a friendly mood, the person about whom he is going to judge seems not to do wrong or only in a small way; but to the judge who is in an angry mood, the same person will seem to do the opposite.

Ethos - If the speaker appears to be credible, the audience will form the second-order judgment that propositions put forward by the credible speaker are true or acceptable. This is especially important in cases where there is no exact knowledge but room for doubt. But how does the speaker manage to appear a credible person? He must display (i) practical intelligence (phronêsis), (ii) a virtuous character, and (iii) good will (Rhet. II.1, 1378a6ff.); for, if he displayed none of them, the audience would doubt that he is able to give good advice at all.

Primary Rhetors (Interviews)

Dad

My dad had heard of rhetoric and he said that it meant persuasion. When I explained it more to him he thought that it was a cool concept and he could definitely see it in his communication as well as news articles he had just read. He said that he is a logical thinker and so when he wants to persuade someone to do something he will use logos.

Mom

My mom did not really have any idea what the word rhetoric meant but when I described what it was to her she realized that she used it everyday in communication. She felt that she used mostly logos when communicating with my dad and mostly ethos and pathos when communicating with us kids. She said that my dad is a logically minded person so she found that if she would speak things out logically to him he would understand and agree with her.

Stay at home mom (affect) (Rian Gordon)

On the mother

Research has found that the connection between a mom’s choice to work and her mental health is not as straightforward as some might assume. An interesting 2012 study by Holmes, Erickson, and Hill, compared the mental and emotional health of stay-at-home and working mothers, while also taking into account their work preference (whether or not they wanted to be working outside the home). What they found was that poor mental health (specifically depression) was not so much predicted by a mother’s job status — instead, what mattered was whether or not there was a discrepancy between what the mom wanted to be doing, and what she was actually doing. If she wanted to be at home but was forced to work, or on the other hand, if she wanted to work but had to stay home, depression was more likely.

On Children

As for older children, having a parent at home has been shown to have an affect on school performance. In this particular study in Norway, kids with a stay-at-home parent had higher GPA’s than those who were placed in daycare.

For young children, developing healthy attachment to a parent or caregiver (most commonly the mother) is particularly essential to a child’s well-being and development. While work doesn’t necessarily interfere with a mother’s capability to develop a healthy attachment with her child, time in the home can certainly give a child more opportunity to have those interactions necessary to develop a healthy attachment.

Parent Child Communication (Runcan, P. L., Constantineanu, C., Ielics, B., & Popa, D.)

Therefore, there is no aspect of the relationship between the parent and the child that does not involve communication. But the issue in the contemporary family is not if the parent or child engage in the communication process, but if they know how to communicate, if they succeed through the message conveyed to tell the other what he/she wants.

Reasons parent-child communication is important.

Communication between parents and children contributes significantly to creating fair and effective relationships, understanding and mutual acceptance between parents and children.

Through communication, as the basis of the motivational process, parents can identify, know and then satisfy the real needs of children;

Through the feedback achieved through communication, interaction between parents and children becomes more powerful and effective;

Communication establishes and maintains relationships between parents and children;

Family functions cannot be operationalized in the absence of communication;

"Communication is done on three levels: logical, verbal and nonverbal. Out of these, the logical level (of words) is only 7% of the total act of communication; 38% occurs at the paraverbal level (tone, volume, speed of speech) and 55% at non-verbal level (facial expression, position, movement, clothing etc.). If there is no contradiction between these levels, communication can be effective otherwise the message will have no effect."