WHEN RHETORIC GETS HARD: Some thoughts about comprehensibility and data fragmentation

IMAGE:  An data sphere surrounded by info-chromosomes inside a nuclear membrane, 
        with some of the following textual fragments visible: 

Melissa: 	Why doest rhetoric often harden to the point that communication becomes futile?

Satoru: 	Don't blame rhetoric - it's merely a tool. . . the responsibility rests with each interlocutor.

Tim: 	    I'm not so sure. Rhetoric can be a power unto itself - sometimes we're slaves to our own words.

Melissa: 	What nonsense! You're evading responsibility . . .

Liao: 	    No, I'm trying to help you think more clearly. We should recognize that most 
            so-called "rhetoric" is like junk food: though easy to devour lots of it, it is never fulfilling.  


Satoru: Huh? Do I really sound this fragmented?

Liao: 	Not when you speak from your heart.


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Reflections on communicative success, rhetoric, and agency.
KEYWORDS: discourse fragmentation, pragmatic failure, communicative acts, comprehensibility

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2011 in Shizuoka, Japan  / Finished: 2016 in Shin-Taipei, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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