Persuasive Strategies and Rhetorical Relation Selection
نویسندگان
چکیده
Persuasion is an emerging topic in the field of Human Computer Interaction: persuasion functions will improve the effectiveness of intelligent interfaces. The focus of this paper regards how persuasion affects Rhetorical Relation (RR) selection in the generation of an effective, and context-adapted, message. Using a taxonomy of persuasive strategies, together with a reasoning model, a tree-like structure of the message is generated. By means of selection theorems this structure is then tagged with appropriate RRs. The message structure includes also features for multimodal realization.
منابع مشابه
Thematic Progression in the Rhetorical Sections of an Online Iraqi English Newspaper
Abstract Thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. The theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. The present study aimed to examine how Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...
متن کاملThematic Progression in the Rhetorical Sections of an Online Iraqi English Newspaper
Abstract Thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. The theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. The present study aimed to examine how Iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...
متن کاملPersuasive Technology Design - A Rhetorical Approach
This article offers a rhetorical design perspective on persuasive technology design, introducing Bitzer’s method of the rhetorical situation. As a case study, knowledge workers in an industrial engineering corporation are examined using Bitzer’s method. Introducing a new system, knowledge workers are to be given the task of innovating and maintaining business processes, thus contributing with c...
متن کاملThe Importance and Trickiness of Definition Strategies in Legal and Political Argumentation
This paper uses argumentation tools to show by means of analyzing nine cases from law and politics how argument strategies using persuasive definitions and quasi-definitions are powerful rhetorical tools of persuasion. By bringing to lightthe argumentation structure found in these examples, it is shown that definitions and redefinitions can have serious legal and political implications. Persuas...
متن کاملDisplaying responsiveness or asserting identity in organizational language: how concept networks capture rhetorical strategies
Organizations constantly produce and consume organizational language, and these texts and documents are a primary way that organizations interact with their environment. In this paper we compare different types of texts to study variation in how organizations use them to interact with the environment. We argue that the authors of a text will primarily use rhetorical strategies that reflect the ...
متن کامل