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Autor/in | Petress, Ken |
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Titel | A Model for Examining, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Understanding Events, Acts and Utterances |
Quelle | In: Reading Improvement, 44 (2006) 1, S.3-5 (3 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0034-0510 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Ideology; Critical Thinking; Persuasive Discourse; Discourse Analysis; Models; Peer Influence; Influences; Deception; Beliefs; Thinking Skills; Communication (Thought Transfer) |
Abstract | Students at all educational levels are daily bombarded by others' attempts to influence them. Influence in the political, religious, social, educational, and advertising arenas pervade people's lives. It is vital to everyone to be aware of influence attempts; to be able to assess whether or not such attempts are useful, friendly, urgent, and in one's best personal/collective interest or not. This essay offers a model of analysis and assessment of influence with the aim of allowing people to protect themselves from unscrupulous influencers and to better understand and take advantage of influences that would benefit them. One way to analyze, evaluate, and understand how events, circumstances, and utterances take on meaning, exert influence (control), and change the course of people's lives is to study how; why; under what conditions and with what constraints; with what prompting or urging by individuals, groups, organizations, elites, and traditions; and with what effects people attempt to argue or persuade others that their perceptions, wants and needs, hopes and aspirations, fears, knowledge, beliefs, values, and ideologies ought to be shared, understood, tolerated, joined, and believed by others. The author discusses six basic influencers' "tools": naming, framing, sequencing, prioritizing, evaluating, and symbolizing. The more complex, sophisticated, and imaginative the influence, the more these tools are required for success. Critics need to understand and use these tools for effective judgments. (Contains 20 endnotes.) (ERIC). |
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Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2017/4/10 |