I found a website that illustrates ‘appeal
to emotion’
This site provides us many messages and
slogans about fur trade, and it is useful when we try to know what kinds of
opinions others have toward fur trade. However, I think it gives us too much
information by the way of appealing to our emotions. For example, it has no
specific numbers or data about fur trade and animals for that, and uses many
words to appeal to our emotions, like ‘hurt’ or ‘cruel’. Using these words may
be effective to make people who don’t have any knowledge about fur trade be
interested in the issue, but is not useful for the people who want to know the
detail of the issue. When providing information on certain kinds of issues,
especially in this case, fur trade, it is important to give us some emotional
appeal and this site shows us well the way of appealing to emotion, I think.
Hi Ikumi,
返信削除I think the website you've written about here was really made not to convince anyone of the cruelty of wearing fur, but it was directed at people who are already convinced, and need slogans and expressions to use in order to convince others. The page provides a list of slogans. Slogans generally appeal to emotion more than to reason. These were slogans that the website creators may have hoped enemies of fur would use at protest marches or demonstrations.
Cheers,
Joseph D.