Civic Discourse and Use of Force

Rhetorical Questions

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis:

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive? – What forms of symbolic action influenced Wilson’s

decision to draw and fire his weapon?

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre:

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in this case?

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in these case?

• Visual and Body rhetoric:

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in these case?

• Visual and Body rhetoric: How have images and bodies served as forms of civic discourse?

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in these case?

• Visual and Body rhetoric: How have images and bodies served as forms of civic discourse?

• Situation/Response:

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in these case?

• Visual and Body rhetoric: How have images and bodies served as forms of civic discourse?

• Situation/Response: How from Bitzer’s perspective (or your own) would you analyze the public response to these verdicts?

Rhetorical Questions

• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand jury seem to find persuasive?

• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are present in these case?

• Visual and Body rhetoric: How have images and bodies served as forms of civic discourse?

• Situation/Response: How from Bitzer’s perspective (or your own) would you analyze the public response to these verdicts?

• Constitutive rhetoric

Rhetorical Questions• Pisteis: what forms of evidence and testimony did the grand

jury seem to find persuasive?• Genre: which of Aristotle’s three genres of rhetoric are

present in these case?• Visual and Body rhetoric: How have images and bodies

served as forms of civic discourse?• Situation/Response: How from Bitzer’s perspective (or your

own) would you analyze the public response to these verdicts?

• Constitutive rhetoric: How and why has this verdict seemingly become “iconic” and transformative?