Monday, December 22, 2014

Rhetoric and Composition: in Steven Lynn’s Rhetoric and Composition.

Rhetoric and Composition: in Steven Lynn’s Rhetoric and Composition.


Janak Tamang
The word “Rhetoric” means by to persuade someone with an argument impressing and influencing way. It is the study of how writers, speakers, and artisans use words to impress and influence to an audience or readers.  And “Composition” means arrangement of words into sentences, and sentences into poetry or prose. It is an artistic manner of putting together words. Therefore, Rhetoric Composition means process of writing, a group of word which influenced to somebody.

Rhetoric is not a newly comers object of study, In the beginning it was used by people without knowingly, they try to convinced to jury and return back their lost property in persuasive way.  So, Rhetoric came as speech first than written form. That’s why; we can say that, Rhetoric is a tool which impressed and influenced the people as in both positive and negative way. It’s create the fear and playing with human emotion.  Mostly in Advertisement, the languages of Rhetoric are artificial, insincerity, and extravagant in order to create fear and word play with psychological aspect of people and they became success to convinced people. The political leader mostly uses the artificial and insincerity language (argument) to convinced people but people doesn’t knew that things and influenced and support with his argument.

Everything has their own purpose by using gesture, costume, gaze, and facial expression etc in rhetoric. In cause of Prime Minister, during his regime they always use the typical Nepali costume but before and after their regime they did not, because their appearance and looks makes them supreme and grace. As like in Television’s “Talk Show” programme the anchor uses different kinds of dresses as their programme’s subject matter to influence the audience. So it will indirectly cooperate with audience mind and plays with psychological aspect of audience. 

To compose all these things, process of building argument, and process of writing is composition. In artistic manner, Particular word in particular place and able to cooperate with situational demanded in order to create inspiration, fear, happy, against, violence, and support etc. Arrangement of words, words putting together, choosing the effective and persuasive words is a process of composition. Each word has their own meaning even it carries several synonyms, in particular place we must put particular prescribed word not simply synonyms because it might destroyed the meaning of text. 



Janak Tamang (Moktan)
MA 2nd Year, Universal  College.
2014.


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