Abstract
Aristotle’s explication of the available means of persuasion includes logic, character, and emotion as the three artistic proofs available to any rhetorician. Because emotion is the least understood rhetorical proof (Jorgenson, 1998), this lesson plan uses Aristotle’s definition of delivery (i.e., variations in rate, volume, and pitch) to illustrate how paralinguistic qualities reflect and elicit emotion. Educators are provided with the necessary materials and procedures for a 50-minute multimedia instructional event including the content and citations for a lecture articulating how paralinguistic variation reflects and elicits emotion, links to audiovisual illustrations of emotional paralinguistic variation, worksheets to structure student processing of the illustrations, and a think/pair/share procedure for efficiently integrating this lesson’s content into the students’ existing knowledge structures.
Recommended Citation
Semmler, Shane
(2014)
"Using Video Clips to Illustrate How Paralinguistic Variation Communicates Emotion,"
Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD: Vol. 1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/discoursejournal/vol1/iss1/9