In article, "FOUR INDICATORS OF A HIGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE", published by journalists Jose M. Mestre and Kimberly A. Barchard claims four reasons- you think about your reactions, you see situations as a challenge, you can modify your emotions, and you can put yourself in other people's shoes- that make people have high, emotional intelligence.
In Mestre and Barchard's article, these journalists uses a moralistic diction throughout. In the article, the journalists used words like "mental health" and "social behaviour." Those diction words are moralistic because it relates to human behavior and talks about how people can figure out if they are emotionally intelligent or not. These moralistic diction words show the journalists emotional attachment to the subject because they use words that relate to the topic, showing they understand and are were probably curious if these four statements really do show the intelligence. Mestre and Barchard uses rhetorical devices like complex syntax, repetition and appeal to pathos. The journalists use of complex syntax creates the emotion that they are very interested of informing the reading of their topic. These complex syntax sentences are constructed of their thoughts or opinions with "-" to extend the thought with elaborate examples to further the reader. The journalist also use repetition when they said "people who lack...", "people who are..." and "people with..." in order to reach out to the audience and see if the description relates to the audience. The repetition of those words also elicit the informative opinions on high intelligence and descriptions of them. Along with those two rhetorical devices, the journalist appeal to pathos when they establish an emotional connections to reader by stating certain descriptions that might connect to individuals reading the article. Throughout the article, the journalists writing represents their frivolous yet didactic tone. Mestre and Barchard describe the four topics that can lead to high intelligence as sort of a joking manner, but still provide sufficient evidence as to way it is a plausible reason. The journalists states, "So if you want to know if you’re emotionally intelligent, simply check the list below." (Mestre and Barchard 2017). They provide evidence that is credible but also make it as a silly way to describe it in that their tone comes off as it lacks seriousness toward the topic. The authors's purpose of describing four indicators of a high emotional intelligence is to establish their opinions on the topic and their own thoughts on how to determine intelligence. The writing that directly speaks to their purpose involves Mestre and Barchard describing emotional intelligence in humans, then listing their OPINIONATED thoughts to figuring out intelligence. The overall goal, in my opinion- LOL- is that the journalist want to inform their audience of their opionions and evidence of how to determine intelligence based of personal experines and observations.
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