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This thesis examines the psychological substrates that support the production and interpretation of social communication. The approach taken is based on an analysis of the scientific underpinnings of rhetoric's Classical canons of invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory, although many contemporary communication perspectives are also considered. The text is grounded in memory theory, rhetoric being defined as the communication-induced modulation of memory and memory processing tendencies (2.5). Thus the tools of rhetoric are examined in terms of how they influence the information processing dynamics that occur within the brain. Chapters 1 and 2 relate memory theory to the rhetorical tradition, while Chapter 3 examines memory systems, their operations, and how each system relates to rhetorical/communication concerns. Chapter 4 reviews what a memory is, how memories are accessed, and the roles that attention plays. In Chapter 5 we find that working memory provides the functional realm in which rhetorical analysis and production occurs while memory formation is the means whereby rhetoric can change information processing and behavioral tendencies. Among the artifacts that activate memory modulation dynamics are the memory cues that we process during the communication process, many cues being the end products of nature/nurture interactions (Chapter 6). Chapters 7 and 8 address rhetorical invention by relating the movements that take place within arguments to the sensorimotor and spatiotemporal resources that allow us to analyze and execute physical movements. In theory, these mnemonic resources include logicoemotional, relational, semantic/syntactic, and episodic templates that maintain the innate and learned processing capacities that allow us to conduct inductive, deductive, and other forms of reasoning. The subject of arrangement is discussed in Chapter 9, with schema theory being used to explain the psychological foundations that support speech and story layouts. Chapter 10 reviews style, the emphasis being on how stylistic tools (e.g. imagery and metaphors) produce their inventional and/or emotional effects. The anatomical and inventional aspects of delivery are surveyed in Chapter 11, as are the influences of audience considerations on message reception. Chapter 12 presents models that can be used to examine rhetorical interactions from psychological perspectives, and it also discusses future research prospects.

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