A Rhetorical Analysis Of Gutman's Speech
I think Gutman is quite rational during his speech because the main body of his speech is reasoning and his emotional language is not heavy. He showed his humor several times to attract his audience in a moderate way. For example, he made a joke of American President Obama’s picture and finished it quickly to continue presenting other research results.
The middle part of his speech is not quite relevant to his claim that smile can make people embrace a longer, happier and healthier life. In that part, his major points include:
1. People are born smiling and smile often.
2. Children smile most frequently.
3. Smiling is contagious.
4. Mimicking a smile helps people to judge if the smile is false or true.
However, it is obvious that these points are irrelevant to his claim. Also, his first point that the span of one’s smile can predict his life span is not very effective, which I will explain in the following chart.
Gutman’s first point that the span of one’s smile can …show more content…
The first part of his argument is not effective enough, and the middle part is not very relevant. In the first part, Gutman tries to prove that the span of people’s smile correlates people’s life span, which is relevant to his claim of the great hidden power of smiling. However, the evidence he gave is not effective. He told the audience that according to a research, a group of baseball players who smiled in the pictures live longer than those who did not smile in the pictures. Gutman did not give further evidence to support the correlation between the span of smile and the life span, which makes his reasoning a logical fallacy. It is a false cause and effect relationship, because the fact that the long life span occurred after a big smile cannot prove that the long span of the smile causes a long life span. It is too hasty to confirm the cause and effect relationship without giving further evidence to support the link between the
The middle part of his speech is not quite relevant to his claim that smile can make people embrace a longer, happier and healthier life. In that part, his major points include:
1. People are born smiling and smile often.
2. Children smile most frequently.
3. Smiling is contagious.
4. Mimicking a smile helps people to judge if the smile is false or true.
However, it is obvious that these points are irrelevant to his claim. Also, his first point that the span of one’s smile can predict his life span is not very effective, which I will explain in the following chart.
Gutman’s first point that the span of one’s smile can …show more content…
The first part of his argument is not effective enough, and the middle part is not very relevant. In the first part, Gutman tries to prove that the span of people’s smile correlates people’s life span, which is relevant to his claim of the great hidden power of smiling. However, the evidence he gave is not effective. He told the audience that according to a research, a group of baseball players who smiled in the pictures live longer than those who did not smile in the pictures. Gutman did not give further evidence to support the correlation between the span of smile and the life span, which makes his reasoning a logical fallacy. It is a false cause and effect relationship, because the fact that the long life span occurred after a big smile cannot prove that the long span of the smile causes a long life span. It is too hasty to confirm the cause and effect relationship without giving further evidence to support the link between the