2/27 Blog

The author of “When Discourses Collide” is Jason Palmeri. He received a Masters Degree in English at Ohio State University in 2003.

I believe that the primary audience for this text is for other scholars or professors. It was difficult for more to follow at times and there were some words that I didn’t understand. I think that it would be difficult for students, or maybe even the average person, to see this as an easy read. Palmeri mentions a large amount of interviews and studies by other experienced scholars. This made the text a little hard for me to follow and I felt lost at some points. The information was very dense and it seemed like Palmeri is extremely well educated with the language that he uses in this text.

In the text, Palmeri states that because he is a rhetorician, it affects the way that he interprets the data used for this text. This is implying that rhetoric affects how we see and interpret everything. Based on things that have happen to us previously or our discourses, we might have a whole different perspective on a certain topic the someone else might. Everyone can use different types of rhetoric. They can use whatever means of persuasion the please to try and get their readers to side or agree with them. As far as genre goes, this text simply states that genre is the way that a certain piece is written for a particular audience or purpose.

I would say that the main message of this text is to show how many different ways rhetoric can be used. It shows how many people use rhetoric in their everyday life and how differently they use it. For example, in a field such as law, a lawyer has to be able to persuade a judge. Their whole job depends on how well they able to use their words to get others to agree with them.