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Title:
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Sincerely, Penn: the use of style in the arguments of Penn Jillette
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Author:
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Cochran, Miles
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Abstract:
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This thesis rhetorically analyzes two artifacts from Penn Jillette on the topic of atheism using the methodology laid out in On Types of Style by Hermogenes. By examining two artifacts from the same general timeframe, by the same author on the same subject this thesis highlights the differences in style in order to draw conclusions about how the variations offered by a single author provide insight into the rhetor’s purpose.
All of these conclusions help describe how style is used in argumentation to emphasize and even create arguments. Secondarily this thesis suggests that the Hermogenic method could be used more broadly in the discipline to offer a broad based unifying methodology for further examinations of style in rhetoric and argumentation. |
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Description:
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Thesis (M.A., Communication Studies) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2010. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1019
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Date:
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2011-03-09 |
