This paper explores the integration of persuasive technology into smoking cessation efforts through the development and evaluation of a mobile app, “No-Smoke.” Leveraging compelling features like social support, tra...This paper explores the integration of persuasive technology into smoking cessation efforts through the development and evaluation of a mobile app, “No-Smoke.” Leveraging compelling features like social support, tracking, planning, and motivation, the app aims to augment user engagement and support the process of quitting smoking. The efficacy of these features has been substantiated through both automated testing and user feedback, highlighting their potential to enhance awareness, motivation, and behavior modification. Despite notable successes, limitations, including a limited user base and uncertainties regarding long-term efficacy, have been acknowledged, stemming from the inherent complexities of smoking cessation. Nevertheless, based on user experiences and feedback, “No-Smoke” represents a promising advancement in the use of technology for public health interventions, particularly in the realm of smoking cessation. To address existing challenges, future research is recommended to encompass a comprehensive, long-term study involving a larger and more diverse user base. Additionally, further investigation should focus on personalization enhancements and the integration of machine learning algorithms to better understand and respond to user behavior.展开更多
In Sonnets 1-17,Shakespeare persuades the Fair Young Man to beget a child so that he can conquest Time and preserve his beauty.Shakespeare's persuasion is vivid and convincing.This paper analyzes the techniques of...In Sonnets 1-17,Shakespeare persuades the Fair Young Man to beget a child so that he can conquest Time and preserve his beauty.Shakespeare's persuasion is vivid and convincing.This paper analyzes the techniques of his persuasion from three aspects:syllogism,various images and appealing to the emotion.展开更多
Based on three aesthetic criteria of logos, pathos and ethos in classic rhetoric theory, this article analyzes the modes of persuasion applied in Barack Obama's first inaugural speech. It has been found out that t...Based on three aesthetic criteria of logos, pathos and ethos in classic rhetoric theory, this article analyzes the modes of persuasion applied in Barack Obama's first inaugural speech. It has been found out that the perfect combination of these three appeals endows the speech with the rhetoric charm, passion and art of language which efficiently helps Obama to guarantee the political success in election.展开更多
Charles Darwin discovers that the theory of the species＇ creation by a miraculous being has reached a double impasse, due to the science ＂speech＂ evolution. There is an expositive impasse （it can＇t explain some f...Charles Darwin discovers that the theory of the species＇ creation by a miraculous being has reached a double impasse, due to the science ＂speech＂ evolution. There is an expositive impasse （it can＇t explain some facts any more） and a communication-comprehensive impasse （within its limits, some facts are not communicable or understandable）. In order to endorse his theory of evolutionism, Darwin develops an argumentative communicating science based on two axes： the facts and the axiomatics. His communicating science follows the next structure： （1） a relation with the starting thesis is established; （2） some evidence are promoted; （3） as the base of the evidence, a motivation is emphasized; （4） as a reason, an axiomatics is assigned to this base; and （5） finally, the facts and the quantifiers are explained by valid conclusions.展开更多
Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and a...Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and all kinds of people living around; the basic theme of her most works was love between young men and women. These works not only inherited the traditional realism but also brought the climax of the works of realism in the 19th century, which blew a fresh breeze for the British literature in the early age the 19th century. All these had made a big difference of the development of English literature history. Persuasion was the last full-length novel of Jane Austin, in which she carefully described a nearly perfect female, Anne Eliot, who was beautiful and knowledgeable, and her love story with Wentworth. This paper will discuss Austen＂ s ideas of love and marriage and reasons of them mainly by analyzing Persuasion.展开更多
One of the important dimensions of violence is suicide, or violence directed toward self that many people suffer from nowadays. In the meantime, adolescents and especially girls are more likely to be harmed. The purpo...One of the important dimensions of violence is suicide, or violence directed toward self that many people suffer from nowadays. In the meantime, adolescents and especially girls are more likely to be harmed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of group training with non-violent communication (NVC) method on suicidal ideations and coping with stress styles of adolescent girls. The target community in this research was availably selected from the charity centers of Tehran suburbs. In this study, 15 adolescent girls were in the experimental group and 15 in the control group. The criteria for entering the research were students aged 11 to 19 years and the vulnerable socio-economic income. Eight training sessions of NVC were presented for the experimental group in the pre-test and post-test intervals, while no intervention was performed for the control group. Data collection instruments were Beck’s scale for suicidal ideation (BDI) and Endler & Parker’s coping inventory for stressful situations (CISS). After statistical analysis, the effectiveness of this training was investigated on dependent variables by multivariate analysis of covariance. Eventually, the results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups (p < 0.05). The finding of the study showed that NVC training can reduce suicidal ideations in adolescent girls who are socially and economically vulnerable. According to the findings, non-violent communication training has a higher effect on emotion-focused coping style compared to other stress coping styles.展开更多
Rhetoric originates in public speeches and in turn guides public speeches;public speeches embody the essential nature of rhetoric―persuasion. This thesis takes practical instances of political speeches to study the r...Rhetoric originates in public speeches and in turn guides public speeches;public speeches embody the essential nature of rhetoric―persuasion. This thesis takes practical instances of political speeches to study the rhetoric of persuasion with particular attention to the three modes as tactics of persuasion commonly designed or employed in political speeches.展开更多
This paper explores the recent findings of some empirical research concerning Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham＇s （ISIS＇） communication and tries to synthesize them under the theoretical frame of propaganda＇s con...This paper explores the recent findings of some empirical research concerning Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham＇s （ISIS＇） communication and tries to synthesize them under the theoretical frame of propaganda＇s concept and practices. Many authors demonstrated how ISIS propaganda campaigns, in particular those deployed on cyberspace, proved to be effective in recruiting new members in both western and Muslim countries. However, while most of the researches focused on ISIS＇s communication contents and narratives, few works considered other methods and techniques used for actually delivering them. This is a regrettable missing point given the fact that communication＇s and neurosciences＇ studies demonstrate that not only what is communicated but also the techniques adopted bear important consequences on the receiver＇s perceptions and behavior. Therefore, this article analyzes in particular the findings of researches carried out by communication scholars, social psychologists, and neuro-cognitive scientists on ISIS＇ persuasive communication techniques and demonstrates their importance for security studies＇ analysis of ISIS＇ propaganda. It argues that ISIS＇ success in mobilizing people and make them prone to violent action relies on-among other factors-its knowledge and exploitation of sophisticated methods of perceptions＇ manipulation and behavior＇s influence. This, in turn, demonstrates ISIS＇ possession of state-like soft power capabilities effectively deployed in propaganda campaigns and therefore calls for a more complex understanding of its agency.展开更多
In this paper, I intend to argue that a conception of philosophy as a way of life needs two elements： persuasion and love. Faced a false conception of philosophy very specialized, professional, and modem that has con...In this paper, I intend to argue that a conception of philosophy as a way of life needs two elements： persuasion and love. Faced a false conception of philosophy very specialized, professional, and modem that has condemned to oblivion philosophy itself, we propose a therapeutic conception （of philosophy） as a way of life, a philosophy that is not reduced to a conceptual content, but that is related to the way of life of the philosopher.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of persuasion and what has been called here pre-persuasion in the perception of the world and of ourselves and in philosophical reflections in general,trying to show th...The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of persuasion and what has been called here pre-persuasion in the perception of the world and of ourselves and in philosophical reflections in general,trying to show that,however original we have wanted to consider,throughout the centuries,the fundamental questions surrounding the ultimate meaning of things,such as“what is being?”,“what is good?”,or“what is the truth or the beauty?”,or yet,“who are we?”,there are always background persuasions that once made explicit by the rhetorical analysis method,it relativizes not only the possible answers,but the question itself.This,in turn,reveals the priority of persuasion on the perception and the unconfessed rhetoric of the speeches.The contribution of the present study is to avoid the naivety of objectivism and metaphysics,the claim of the ultimaverba,or last conversation and to prevent the illusion of definitive speech,seen,by Perelman,as a pseudo lay form of revelation.The only sacredness admitted which,therefore,pre-persuades us is,in Perelman‟s words,that of endless dialogue,in Blanchot‟s words,the infinite conversation,and,finally,in Rorty‟s words,the edifying philosophy.展开更多
Jane Austen's posthumously published novel Persuasion has been regarded as a foreshadowing of Romanticism, especially in its autumnal tone that has inherent intimacy with John Keats's To Autumn and Percy Byssh...Jane Austen's posthumously published novel Persuasion has been regarded as a foreshadowing of Romanticism, especially in its autumnal tone that has inherent intimacy with John Keats's To Autumn and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ode to the West Wind. Blending the stylistic disparities in the two Romanticist poems, Persuasion 's autumnal sensation changes its colors from being tinged with Keats's melancholy to the touch of Shelley's animation. The integration of both tones has created a unique autumnal duet that is remindful of its Romanticist followers.展开更多
Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and ...Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and is also the most complex and most challenging.To achieve the persuasive purpose,audience is a key element to consider.But unfortunately,many Chinese college students have no sense of audience at all.Besides,although some researchers have mentioned in their books or papers the important role the audience plays in persuasive writing,so far few writing books or papers have made a relatively comprehensive and systematic study and exploration of how to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.So,this paper,which is intended to elaborate on it,first gives a definition to audience awareness,then analyzes the influence audience awareness exerts on persuasive writing,and finally proposes a few feasible and effective methods to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.展开更多
文摘This paper explores the integration of persuasive technology into smoking cessation efforts through the development and evaluation of a mobile app, “No-Smoke.” Leveraging compelling features like social support, tracking, planning, and motivation, the app aims to augment user engagement and support the process of quitting smoking. The efficacy of these features has been substantiated through both automated testing and user feedback, highlighting their potential to enhance awareness, motivation, and behavior modification. Despite notable successes, limitations, including a limited user base and uncertainties regarding long-term efficacy, have been acknowledged, stemming from the inherent complexities of smoking cessation. Nevertheless, based on user experiences and feedback, “No-Smoke” represents a promising advancement in the use of technology for public health interventions, particularly in the realm of smoking cessation. To address existing challenges, future research is recommended to encompass a comprehensive, long-term study involving a larger and more diverse user base. Additionally, further investigation should focus on personalization enhancements and the integration of machine learning algorithms to better understand and respond to user behavior.
文摘In Sonnets 1-17,Shakespeare persuades the Fair Young Man to beget a child so that he can conquest Time and preserve his beauty.Shakespeare's persuasion is vivid and convincing.This paper analyzes the techniques of his persuasion from three aspects:syllogism,various images and appealing to the emotion.
文摘Based on three aesthetic criteria of logos, pathos and ethos in classic rhetoric theory, this article analyzes the modes of persuasion applied in Barack Obama's first inaugural speech. It has been found out that the perfect combination of these three appeals endows the speech with the rhetoric charm, passion and art of language which efficiently helps Obama to guarantee the political success in election.
文摘Charles Darwin discovers that the theory of the species＇ creation by a miraculous being has reached a double impasse, due to the science ＂speech＂ evolution. There is an expositive impasse （it can＇t explain some facts any more） and a communication-comprehensive impasse （within its limits, some facts are not communicable or understandable）. In order to endorse his theory of evolutionism, Darwin develops an argumentative communicating science based on two axes： the facts and the axiomatics. His communicating science follows the next structure： （1） a relation with the starting thesis is established; （2） some evidence are promoted; （3） as the base of the evidence, a motivation is emphasized; （4） as a reason, an axiomatics is assigned to this base; and （5） finally, the facts and the quantifiers are explained by valid conclusions.
文摘Jane Austen was a famous female writer who lived in the period between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. When she was very young, she began to write about the life in the country and all kinds of people living around; the basic theme of her most works was love between young men and women. These works not only inherited the traditional realism but also brought the climax of the works of realism in the 19th century, which blew a fresh breeze for the British literature in the early age the 19th century. All these had made a big difference of the development of English literature history. Persuasion was the last full-length novel of Jane Austin, in which she carefully described a nearly perfect female, Anne Eliot, who was beautiful and knowledgeable, and her love story with Wentworth. This paper will discuss Austen＂ s ideas of love and marriage and reasons of them mainly by analyzing Persuasion.
文摘One of the important dimensions of violence is suicide, or violence directed toward self that many people suffer from nowadays. In the meantime, adolescents and especially girls are more likely to be harmed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of group training with non-violent communication (NVC) method on suicidal ideations and coping with stress styles of adolescent girls. The target community in this research was availably selected from the charity centers of Tehran suburbs. In this study, 15 adolescent girls were in the experimental group and 15 in the control group. The criteria for entering the research were students aged 11 to 19 years and the vulnerable socio-economic income. Eight training sessions of NVC were presented for the experimental group in the pre-test and post-test intervals, while no intervention was performed for the control group. Data collection instruments were Beck’s scale for suicidal ideation (BDI) and Endler & Parker’s coping inventory for stressful situations (CISS). After statistical analysis, the effectiveness of this training was investigated on dependent variables by multivariate analysis of covariance. Eventually, the results showed a significant difference between the experimental and control groups (p < 0.05). The finding of the study showed that NVC training can reduce suicidal ideations in adolescent girls who are socially and economically vulnerable. According to the findings, non-violent communication training has a higher effect on emotion-focused coping style compared to other stress coping styles.
文摘Rhetoric originates in public speeches and in turn guides public speeches;public speeches embody the essential nature of rhetoric―persuasion. This thesis takes practical instances of political speeches to study the rhetoric of persuasion with particular attention to the three modes as tactics of persuasion commonly designed or employed in political speeches.
文摘This paper explores the recent findings of some empirical research concerning Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham＇s （ISIS＇） communication and tries to synthesize them under the theoretical frame of propaganda＇s concept and practices. Many authors demonstrated how ISIS propaganda campaigns, in particular those deployed on cyberspace, proved to be effective in recruiting new members in both western and Muslim countries. However, while most of the researches focused on ISIS＇s communication contents and narratives, few works considered other methods and techniques used for actually delivering them. This is a regrettable missing point given the fact that communication＇s and neurosciences＇ studies demonstrate that not only what is communicated but also the techniques adopted bear important consequences on the receiver＇s perceptions and behavior. Therefore, this article analyzes in particular the findings of researches carried out by communication scholars, social psychologists, and neuro-cognitive scientists on ISIS＇ persuasive communication techniques and demonstrates their importance for security studies＇ analysis of ISIS＇ propaganda. It argues that ISIS＇ success in mobilizing people and make them prone to violent action relies on-among other factors-its knowledge and exploitation of sophisticated methods of perceptions＇ manipulation and behavior＇s influence. This, in turn, demonstrates ISIS＇ possession of state-like soft power capabilities effectively deployed in propaganda campaigns and therefore calls for a more complex understanding of its agency.
文摘In this paper, I intend to argue that a conception of philosophy as a way of life needs two elements： persuasion and love. Faced a false conception of philosophy very specialized, professional, and modem that has condemned to oblivion philosophy itself, we propose a therapeutic conception （of philosophy） as a way of life, a philosophy that is not reduced to a conceptual content, but that is related to the way of life of the philosopher.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to explain the role of persuasion and what has been called here pre-persuasion in the perception of the world and of ourselves and in philosophical reflections in general,trying to show that,however original we have wanted to consider,throughout the centuries,the fundamental questions surrounding the ultimate meaning of things,such as“what is being?”,“what is good?”,or“what is the truth or the beauty?”,or yet,“who are we?”,there are always background persuasions that once made explicit by the rhetorical analysis method,it relativizes not only the possible answers,but the question itself.This,in turn,reveals the priority of persuasion on the perception and the unconfessed rhetoric of the speeches.The contribution of the present study is to avoid the naivety of objectivism and metaphysics,the claim of the ultimaverba,or last conversation and to prevent the illusion of definitive speech,seen,by Perelman,as a pseudo lay form of revelation.The only sacredness admitted which,therefore,pre-persuades us is,in Perelman‟s words,that of endless dialogue,in Blanchot‟s words,the infinite conversation,and,finally,in Rorty‟s words,the edifying philosophy.
文摘Jane Austen's posthumously published novel Persuasion has been regarded as a foreshadowing of Romanticism, especially in its autumnal tone that has inherent intimacy with John Keats's To Autumn and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ode to the West Wind. Blending the stylistic disparities in the two Romanticist poems, Persuasion 's autumnal sensation changes its colors from being tinged with Keats's melancholy to the touch of Shelley's animation. The integration of both tones has created a unique autumnal duet that is remindful of its Romanticist followers.
基金This paper is supported by Sichuan Foreign Language and Literature Research Center(Project No.:SCWYGJ22-18)it is also the research result of“English Writing”,one of the second batch of online and offline first-class undergraduate courses in Sichuan Province(2021).
文摘Persuasive or argumentative writing,which focuses on the reader and seeks to change the reader’s mind,or to bring the reader’s point of view to the writer’s,is the most prominent and practical academic writing and is also the most complex and most challenging.To achieve the persuasive purpose,audience is a key element to consider.But unfortunately,many Chinese college students have no sense of audience at all.Besides,although some researchers have mentioned in their books or papers the important role the audience plays in persuasive writing,so far few writing books or papers have made a relatively comprehensive and systematic study and exploration of how to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.So,this paper,which is intended to elaborate on it,first gives a definition to audience awareness,then analyzes the influence audience awareness exerts on persuasive writing,and finally proposes a few feasible and effective methods to strengthen Chinese college students’audience awareness.
文摘通过健康信息传播和教育说服公众形成健康行为意愿是一个现实课题。本文以精细加工可能性模型(elabo‐ration likelihood model,ELM)为理论基础,将说服路径分为中心路径和外围路径,同时引入短期的时间纵向数据追踪。本文实施了10天左右持续使用健康信息的日记报告实验,基于30名大学生提交的377条健康信息日记数据,建立个体层面与信息线索、时间层面的多层线性回归模型(hierarchical linear modeling,HLM),探究健康信息对个体健康行为意愿的说服机制。研究结果表明,健康行为意愿的说服过程主要是信息质量和来源可信度的混合式说服路径;在7天周期内,健康信息说服效果逐渐增强,其中信息质量的说服效果更为稳定,来源可信度的说服效果则随着时间推移逐渐被抵消;健康信息说服路径随个体特征和接触时机而变;健康意识调节来源可信度和信息热度对说服效果的影响,且具有时间效应;卷入度调节信息质量和来源可信度对信息说服效果的影响,但不存在时间效应。本文的研究结果有助于深入理解健康信息对健康行为意愿改变的说服机制,为建立“以人为本”的个性化健康信息传播和健康教育方案提供了参考。
