Month: May 2017

Persuasion and rhetoric in advertising

“It doesn’t sound very persuasive”, “Ok, you’ve persuaded me” – people hear and use these phrases daily and yet, they don’t notice how much power and complexity is hidden behind the word “persuasion” in terms of communication. According to Simons, “persuasion” as one of the oldest communication tools, which dates back to Plato, Aristotle, Gorgias..

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