found: Work cat.: The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America, 1999:p. 78 ("... the power of exhortation to promote intense conviction makes it an 'alien tongue' ... exhortation served to restore simplicity and order through the introduction of highly charged and distinctive emotional states")
found: Encyclopedia of rhetoric, 2001:(exhortation: the use of rhetorical means to encourage moral reformation, or more immediately, to encourage morally significant action on the basis of common experience, conviction, or hope; exhortation may be dissuasive or persuasive; found in discourse seeking to reinforce and incite rather than deliberate; can be described as persuasion aimed toward the heart and hands. Ancient Greek terms related to exhortation include paraklēsis (beseeching and consolation), paraenesis (moral formation), protreptic (exhortation to a certain knowledge and its specific virtue(s), diatribē (exhortation employing contrast and contradiction, exclamation, word plays, lists, and short, open-ended responses; Paul's Letter to the Romans is a good example of diatribe use))
found: Sourcebook on rhetoric, c2001:(exhortation (var. "exhortative discourse" "hortatory rhetoric"); aims at the evocation of an emotional response, operates by way of passions or emotions; use of the imperative mood is a sign of exhortation's presence. Exhortation often features use of copula (what is or will be) in place of moral imperative (what should be), giving oration a prophetic ethos)
found: Classical rhetoric for the modern student, 1999:p. 23 (According to Aristotle, deliberative or political oratory was always about the future; its means were exhortation and dehortation)
found: Rhetoric and Galatians, 1998:p. 140 (Funeral orations exhorted children to virtue; such exhortation shares little with the persuasion of deliberative speeches)
