Goals for the Day

• Be able to define four types of doublespeak (jargon, euphemism, gobbledygook, inflated language).
• Generate original examples of fallacies and doublespeak.

Doublespeak

Exaggerated Example:  Kevin King
What is doublespeak?
Review each of the concepts.


What are "talking points"?  How can they be turned into doublespeak?
Example:  Governor of Florida


Additional Rhetorical Concepts
Doublethink:  the power to hold two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.  -George Orwell, 1984

A few more fallacies...

False Analogy:  This fallacy compares two things which might share some similarities, but also differ in very important, often crucial ways.  Meaning is often twisted with this fallacy.

• Humans were born as free as the birds.  Why should we work?

Guilt by Association:  This fallacy claims someone is guilty because they may share some ideas or have a relationship with a criticized person or group.

• All communists are civil rights supporters. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a civil rights supporter. Therefore, Martin Luther King, Jr. is a communist.

Fallacy Poster Project

1.  Each group will add an example of the fallacy to the corresponding poster.

2.  Illustrate your example if you wishJ

3.  You may use whatever resources you have available to generate your example (go-go-gadget fallacy generator!)

4.  You cannot repeat an example that is from the Powerpoint, handout, or that is already present on the poster.  Be original.

A LINK message:  Welcome, Zoe!

HOMEWORK?

FINISH ALL READINGS and make sure Comp Book is caught up.

EDMODO conversation:  Respond to Russell Brand's rhetoric on American foreign policy.  (Respond in the conversation stream where the video is linked.)