Response to Group Four's Questions

The four types of body rhetoric are “embodied argumentation, street theater, rhetorical style and the vibe as bodily emanation” (145, Gandio). Embodied argumentation uses body language to make an argument. People have certain hand movements or position themselves in a confident way during a big protest. Street theatre is a political performance like a protest or rally. Protests and rallies today are used to communicate to the government in order to make certain things legal or illegal. Rhetorical style describes how communicative gestures look to others and the feelings they reveal. For example if I only hold up my first two fingers in an antiwar rally it will look like the peace sign and will reveal my feelings toward war. The vibe is energy that comes off our bodies when promoting or contesting political agendas. The energy given off someone promoting or contesting political agendas could possibly influence the people around them to join. Bodily argumentation is made up of four ways that use embodied argumentation to expand the realm of rhetoric. Embodied argumentation is a call to action that allows people to do what they are saying and resist the government. Embodied argumentation also allows people to understand non-verbal rhetoric. Another embodied argumentation that expands the realm of rhetoric is using body language anywhere to express their views, ideas and political standings. The last embodied argumentation is crafting body communication into a very good argument. The process in order to perfect body language to make an argument takes time and practice. Without these four ways, nobody can be influencing and support their position. The five steps to cultivating style is for a person to observe their own style, observe other people’s style, to reflect on those styles, experiment with different styles, take chances with different stylistic choices and apply them to their style. If someone is able to compare their style to other people’s style then they can experiment with different styles. This allows them to be unique and take risks with different styles of clothing people would not normally wear. An individual body argument is a person using their body to make an argument. People will usually paint their bodies with certain colors and write words on their body to express how they feel. For example my friend wrote Kobe don’t go on his stomach in purple and yellow. He tried to get on the big screen during the Lakers verse Celtics game. A couple of random people yelled at him that Kobe sucks and he yelled back his thoughts. A collective body argument is “protests and actions, which might include: sanctioned rallies, marches, and demonstrations; direct actions; silent die-ins; snake marches; street festivals; both militant and peaceful confrontations; a few people on a street corner or a million people across the globe” (151, Gandio). Usually collective body argument is made up of more than one person attempting to communicate their message to the public.