Rhetoric Becomes You: Aristotle and Erving Goffman
Channel: Electric Didact
Date: 2017-01-12

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If all speech is by nature expressive of some interest to persuade, then do our bodies also count as speech? 

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Works Cited: 
Aristotle (trans. George A. Kennedy), Rhetoric

Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz, Everything’s an Argument, 1999, Bedford St. Martins

Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1973, The Overlook Press

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Assets:
Damon Wayans at the Improv comedy club in Houston, Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007_Damon_Wayans.jpg#/media/File:2007_Damon_Wayans.jpg) 
Vishnu Vardhan in conversation with Iolanda Pensa regarding Wikimedia India, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vishnu_Vardhan_in_conversation_with_Iolanda_Pensa_regarding_Wikimedia_India,_GLAM_initiatives_at_WikiSym,_Hong_Kong.jpg) 
European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Swiss Author Christian Kracht, Center for the Study of Europe Boston University, CC BY-SA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_Voices-_A_Reading_%26_Conversation_with_Swiss_Author_Christian_Kracht_(21447658640).jpg) 
 In Conversation with Dr Joanne Liu of Médecins Sans Frontières, Chatham House, CC BY (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chatham_House_Prize_2015_-_In_Conversation_with_Dr_Joanne_Liu_of_Médecins_Sans_Frontières_(22168352876).jpg) 
Fishbowl conversation, visualpun.ch, CC BY-SA (https://www.flickr.com/photos/visualpunch/8655197243) 

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Music: 
“Facticity,” Nihilore, A Human Work, CC BY (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nihilore/A_Human_Work/Nihilore_-_A_Human_Work_-_12_Facticity)