Topic 6

In this reading 5.3 we had learned about Types of Exposition: ‘persuading that’ and ‘persuading to’. There are four types of it which are analytical, hortatory, reasoning and also personality exposition. For analytical usually it is a thesis where something we persuade that or to explain why things are as they are. While hortatory is to explain why they should change or in other word to persuade to. We can found this in political speeches and debate. Reasoning in exposition is same like hortatory that are about why, but reasoning in speech and in writing is very different.
I only understand about what Maryam had explained in the class, but for Fandi and Hafiz presentation I am a little bit confusing. Maryam explained about metaphor in ‘nuke speak’ – the language of nuclear weapons or ‘nuke speak’. There are wide variety of metaphors, different levels and many different perspectives. The metaphor is a ‘nuclear weapons are part of nation’s industrial output’, whereby it is clearly crucial to the way in which we talk about and construct our world. Not only has that metaphor drawn on our knowledge of the physical world of concrete objects and spatial relationships in order to structure a great variety of experiential domains.