pathotic

Adjective

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...
   • 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...
   • We observe how speakers appeal to emotions in two ways: first, by using pathotic Argument Schemes [for example Fear Appeal, as described by Walton (2013)], second, by using emotion-eliciting language [for example words...