QUESTION: Is it possible for a scientist to avoid emotive language? And should they? Emotive language is a type of diction that uses words and phrases that evoke an emotional response to a subject. This is contrary to referential language, which has the primary function to communicate facts, ideas, opinions, theories. While referential language is based on intellectual communication, emotive language has the purpose of influencing emotions. In the natural sciences, it is often that there are research papers that consist mainly of referential language, for example, scientists use it to describe their results and data observed. In addition, in other occurrences, scientists use emotive language, for example, when they make speeches or proposals where they need to persuade or convince their audience on their topic. Firstly, it is possible for scientists to avoid using emotive language. It is not as necessary in this area of knowledge as compared to human sciences and the arts. There are not many scenarios where that type of diction is needed to communicate information. For example, a scientist writing a research paper on his or her experiments should use referential language. There is no need to use emotive language as it would not serve any …show more content…
And I believe that would be a reason for why scientists would use emotive language, so when they are engaging their audience they continually keep their attention. Especially as they would be talking about important and theoretical information it can easily become boring. For example, a scientist performing a speech at a TED talk conference, this is a prestigious and intellectual setting, where precious speakers were able to engage and intrigue their audience. Therefore, that scientist would want to follow that style to convey their information without making the speech
For example, Yousafzai speaks about girls and boys education because "... they are suffering the most" (Eleven). Using the word "suffering" draws emotion from the listeners or readers. This is using pathos because it is evoking emotion. In addition, Yousafzai shows that “... innocent and poor children are victims of child labor,” (Ten) instead of getting an education. Saying that the children are innocent and poor brings out emotion, evoking pathos. This adds to her claim by making education sound even more important. Pathos is used to evoke emotion from the audience about her claim.
It is obvious that literacy contributes to success (logos), that the more fortunate should help people in necessity because it’s the right thing to do (ethos), and that emotion needs to be brought before the eyes in some occasions (pathos) so the audience can be persuaded. Furthermore, the reviewers needed to identify with the writers and everyone else that was a member of the rhetorical ecology. The author wrote this to help readers and writers understand some basic rhetorical principles as they continue to study rhetoric. This argument matters because most people tend to be confused on what rhetoric is and how it should be applied to writing. The author seems to agree with readers and writers on rhetoric being considered confusing but also disagrees with them by stating that rhetoric can be quite simple if elements are used appropriately. A term I came across was pisteis, which is pathos, ethos and logos, elements that can be used in persuasion. Another term I came across was pervasive: widespread of a thing throughout people or an
Authors and speakers alike use some type of persuasion on their intended audience. They often try to make you agree with their argument before considering other factors. Persuasive writing often has a copious amount of logical fallacies, defined by the Perdue Online Writing Lab as “errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic”, despite that they tend to have success with sympathetic audiences. Wendell Berry’s essay “The Whole Horse” is an example. Berry is likely to persuade his conservationist audience because of his use of emotive language.
Effectively communicating an idea or opinion requires several language techniques. In his study of rhetoric, Aristotle found that persuasion was established through three fundamental tools. One is logos, which is used to support an argument through hard data and statistics. Another is ethos, which is the credibility of an author or speaker that allows an audience to conclude from background information and language selection a sense of knowledge and expertise of the person presenting the argument. The impact of pathos, however, is the most effective tool in persuasion due to the link between emotions and decisions. Although each of these tools can be effective individually, a combination of rhetorical devices when used appropriately has the ability to sway an audience toward the writer’s point of view.
In speechcraft, orators have reverted to three basic concepts to persuade an audience; ethics, logic or emotion. All views are powerful, the path of emotion, or pathos, has stirred men to riots, the path of ethics, or ethos, has reminded people of the basest of their knowing and the path of logic, or logos, has calmed the savagest of beasts to men. No matter how human's develop, they retain the remnants of their not so distant cousins, animals. This is apparent when one takes note in the brain's ability to overcome human speech with basic emotions, to ‘render one speechless’ if you will. In these cases, much like animals, humans are propelled into action, leaving behind civilized concepts,
A person’s vocabulary is not limited to the specific words he uses. Vocabulary extends to different phrases used. For example, adding different sentence adverbs, such as “frankly”, “in fact”, and “obviously”, to the beginning of a sentence changes the tone of the speaker’s message. “I enjoy a challenge” is a simple statement, but its tone is perceived differently when changed to “Obviously, I enjoy a challenge”. The tone is more matter-of-fact, possibly less polite, to the speaker’s audience. This case can also be seen with the overuse of the phrase “I feel like”. In Molly Worthen’s article “Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’”, she analyzes today’s overuse of “I feel like” among college students. This phrase has the power to change a fact into an opinion. “Global warming is an issue” loses its definite meaning when it is changed to “I feel like global
as unknowing and uncaring. Also, a real smile is fine; however, a fake smile can escalate the situation further. Let the individual know the conversation is unquestionably about them. We accomplish this by listening, making eye contact, the occasional head nod, and not allowing for distractions whenever possible.
The English language or any language for that matter is made up of just a cluster of words, but when those words are used inappropriately they can trigger emotions such as guilt, despair, and sorrow. Language is inappropriately used when Jana was referring to Tapka as “shithead”, “Gaylord” and “mental case” and Mark can be seen reflecting on her words when he thought, “I couldn’t help thinking, Poor
Stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.
For example, in passage A, Einstein used words “coordinates,” in order to describe the position of an object. Einstein could have used the word “position” in order to convey the meaning of space and time, but he believed “coordinate” would be more concise and mathematical; additionally, Einstein in passage A assumed that the readers would know what “coordinate” meant, looking from the fact that he lacked an explanation of what coordinate was. Making Einstein’s passages concise and intellectual was critical for Einstein as a renowned scientist; the audience not only included eager citizens, but also the scientists. In passage B, Einstein uses the words “society,” “production,” and “community” to explicitly show that he was intended to write about society and the economic system/ideology. Since words such as authoritarian, socialist, and communist have many common elements, Einstein specifically indicated that “socialist” economy will bring prosperity to the world. By using the qualifying language, Einstein successfully wrote concise and professional paragraphs, increasing his credibility as a renowned
Emotive language, metaphors and power of three have been used in Kevin Rudd’s apology speech to shape the central subject of mistreatment. This apology speech was the first one of its kind, because Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia in 2008, was the first personnel that actually apologized for the abuse inflicted on the Indigenous people of the land. Emotive language has been employed in the speech to present the key subject of mistreatment. Mistreatment has been through the various numbers of uses of emotive language.
language can allow us to communicate an exact idea or to persuade others to one
...oes for most of the emotions that people feel. I never really noticed any of this before I started writing this paper. I shared this information with my best friend and she was amazed that the way people interact is generally the same within groups in society. She now has a better understanding of the communication patterns and behaviors of people and she is not even in the class.
Emotions play a significant part in our daily lives, especially to our overall wellbeing whenever we share these experiences with other people. The ability to express and interpret emotions is an important skill that everyone can improve on that would greatly benefit their interpersonal communication. Our expressions accompany our emotions; they serve as windows that allow other people to know what we are feeling inside. There are several factors that influence how we communicate our feelings.
I have always been fascinated by how we use language. Words are so vastly complex that what should be a simple task of communicating seems to be one of the most difficult tasks human beings ever endeavor to undertake. I write songs. Nothing professional. Most of them are more of a personal journaling process and only for my own ears. I only mention it because, as a song writer I play around with words quite often to make them fit with a previous line, a specific rhythm or to convey just the right thought or emotion. The concept of connotation versus denotation was not a new one for me. However, I did not realize how powerful connotations could be in the process of argumentation. The idea of a semantic differential gave me a new way of viewing