Ethos and Pragmatics

Ethos, the speaker’s image in speech is one of three means persuasion e stablished by Aristotle’s Rhetoric and often studied a loose way. Many scholars develop lists self-images (ethos leader, modesty ethos, etc.), but few explain how arrives at these types ethos. This precisely what inferential approach described here intends to do. Considering, like many discourse analysts, that ethos consubstantial with speech, this paper provides an overview various subtypes highlights can be inferred from discourse. Mainly, we would point out speaker says about him or herself only part has been called “said ethos”: processes triggered collectivities, opponents, audience also help construct tool will applied analyze corpus Donald Trump’s tweets 6 January 2021, day assault on Capitol. As notion inference essential creating pleads for integration study rhetorical field pragmatics.