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Erasmus was one of the more acclaimed masters of the stylistics of rhetoric (Erasmus , 1978 However , later renaissance thinkers believed that viewing rhetoric simply as the icing on the cake of thought was trivializing it . This resulted in a movement of viewing rhetoric as thought itself , as being something that led to human development , a way of thinking that was very similar to that of classical rhetoricians . Soon , the thinkers of the later Renaissance period began to study rhetoric in relation to other fields in to prove that rhetoric was not simply

about style . This led to a smooth transition into what is now seen as modern rhetoric

Modern Rhetoric

Modern rhetoric , although also concerned with the persuasion that classical rhetoric handles , adds a new aspect to the world of rhetorical discourse . Modern rhetoric is involved not only with the art of argumentative persuasion itself but also an included scientific study of the art form . The student of modern rhetoric , therefore , views language expression as concrete physical events which can be approached observed , and studied with the careful eye of a scientist (Wallace 2003

History of modern rhetoric

Because modern rhetoric is viewed through the eyes of a scientist early modern rhetoric theorists tried to move the study of rhetoric into the field of social sciences . This would give emphasis on the need to view rhetoric as an indicator of human behavior , indicating its capability to predict an individual 's actions . This attempt to bring rhetoric into the social sciences , however , was not successful

Even though the attempt of early modern rhetoricians failed , the study of modern rhetoric is still most distinctly scientific in nature . Modern rhetoric is strongly founded on research , reliant on results of the said research and the methods of behavioral sciences . Although modern rhetoric has now...