pathotic

Adjective

pathotic (comparative more pathotic, superlative most pathotic)

1. Being of an argumentative style directed to elicit pathos in the audience.
   • All the discussed proposals seem to be based on the collection and ordering of a list of different criteria that a story told in an argumentative discourse should fulfil in order to be credible and accepted as evidence of some sort. If we sum up and try to arrange what we have so far seen, starting...2015 January 1, Paula Olmos, “Story Credibility in Narrative Arguments”, in Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, editors, Reflections on Theoretical Issues in Argumentation Theory, Berlin: Springer...
   • The modes of argumentation which work through persuasion are ethotic and pathotic with former being act of persuading an “audience through the character of the arguer wherein someone of good character, expertise or experiential knowledge is seen as standing a good chance of convincing an audience”...2020 May 15, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, “ZANU–PF Women’s League and the (Re)configuration of Political Power in Influencing Succession Politics in Zimbabwe”, in Women's Political Communication in...