In the article Preserving Native America’s Vanishing Language, the author, David Maxwell Braun, uses the three rhetorical appeals to persuade his audience that Native American languages should be protected from extinction. Credit is given to Aristotle for defining what has come to be known as ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos involves using the position and status of the speaker to try and establish credibility for their claims. Pathos involves invoking certain emotions to try and persuade the audience. Logos involves using logic and facts to try and convince the audience of a point. Throughout his article, Braun utilizes all three rhetorical appeals in order to argue why Native American languages should be preserved. The author uses logos in his article by providing logical and scientific claims as to why conserving Native American languages is a relevant cause. Such statements include when the author says that languages are a means of identification, history, and perspective of a people. This is a logical claim that goes towards proving the author’s point. He also says that “from a scientific perspective it is also imperative to document languages....” The usage of a scientific angle also helps to convince his audience as to why his point of view is correct. Utilizing logos was an effective way for the…show more content… Braun uses ethos when he makes mention of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Living Tongues is an organization dedicated to the recording of waning languages globally and to the revitalization of those nearing extinction. Such an institution proves to be a reliable part of the argument for protecting vulnerable languages, Native American and others, from complete obsolescence. They speak, in a reader’s mind, to the significance of recording, resurrecting, and protecting the Native American languages before it’s too
