Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Rhetorical Analysis	Audience Reception Analysis
Πεδίο	Communication	Communication
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2017	1980
Δημιουργός	Classical rhetoric (Aristotle); modern criticism systematized by Foss	Stuart Hall (encoding/decoding); David Morley (empirical reception)
Τύπος	Interpretive analysis of how symbolic messages persuade and create meaning	Qualitative study of how audiences interpret and make meaning from media
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Foss, S. K. (2017). Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice (5th ed.). Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press. ISBN: 9781478634898	Hall, S. (1980). Encoding/decoding. In S. Hall, D. Hobson, A. Lowe, & P. Willis (Eds.), Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972–79 (pp. 128–138). London: Hutchinson. ISBN: 9780415079068
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Rhetorical criticism, Rhetorical analysis method, Rhetorical critique, Retorik Analiz	Reception study, Encoding/decoding analysis, Reception analysis of audiences, İzleyici Alımlama Analizi
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Rhetorical analysis, or rhetorical criticism, is the systematic interpretation of how symbolic messages — speeches, texts, images, campaigns — work to persuade audiences and create meaning. Rooted in classical rhetoric and codified for contemporary practice by scholars like Sonja Foss, it examines the strategies a message uses, the situation it responds to, and the effects it invites, producing an argued interpretation rather than a count.	Audience reception analysis studies how real audiences interpret and make meaning from media texts, rejecting the idea that meaning is simply transmitted from message to receiver. Built on Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model and David Morley's empirical work, it treats interpretation as an active, socially situated process and examines whether audiences accept, negotiate, or resist the meanings a text seems to prefer.