A Rhetorical Analysis Of 'Hungry Like The Wolf'

Scientific thinking is distinguished from non-scientific thinking by its reliance on testable facts and evidence. Scientists are supposed to adhere to stipulated rules and principle in their inquiry and reporting. Press releases, on the other hand, are not confined by any inquiry or reporting rules. Journalists thus have unlimited freedom in their writing, and they often misrepresent facts and information during reporting to suit their needs. Press releases are prone to factual misrepresentations and generalizations, and this greatly reduces their credibility.

An analysis of the journal article Hungry like the wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths and its corresponding press release Know anyone who talks about food and

There are several instances of exaggeration of findings in the press release. The press release title is the first overstatement. This title claims that anyone who talks too much about money and food is a psychopath and should be treated with caution. The original article, on the other hand, does not limit the basic needs to only food and money but uses these two as only examples amongst others. It also does not explicitly imply that all people who talk too much about food and money are psychos. A psychopath could talk more about other basic needs such as shelter, sex, clothing, and sanitation. The authors also exaggerate the use of verbal stumbles during narrative events. They state that those people who use stumbles such as ‘um’ and ‘ah’ should be treated with caution. However, Verbal stumbles could as well be a result of a communication

A lot of information given in the press release differs from what is written in the original journal. There is a discrepancy between the sample size given in the press release and what appears in the original journal. The press release gives a sample size of 55 convicted murderers, 15 of whom were psychopaths while the original journal gives 52 inmates, 14 of them being psychopaths. The journal in which the original article was published is also misrepresented in the press release. Instead of giving the journal as the journal of Legal and Criminological Psychology the press release gives it as the Journal of Criminological Psychology. This is misleading. The press release also fails to properly elaborate on the tools used in data analysis analytics as well as the research methodology. It fails to properly describe the analytic tools used. It only mentions that one analytic tool was used while there were two analytic tools used. In the original article two tools are outlined, the Wmatrix linguistic analysis tool and the Dictionary of Affect Language (DAL). The research procedure also fails to make it known by the readers that the sample consisted of only male