@article{Campos Vargas_2020, title={Music, Rhythm and Persuasion: Hitler’s Oratory }, volume={14}, url={http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/615}, DOI={10.4396/202013}, abstractNote={<p>Hitler’s oratory was powerful, awesome… As in 1930’s Germany, nowadays, it attracts millions of people around the world. What is the source of this frightening power? How could a man have it? By the Ancient theory of rhythmic prose, this paper studies the importance of rhythm in some German phrases and a Hitler’s speech and the role of their features in the persuasion process. The German language has long and short vowels, diphthongs and accents, like Latin and Greek; therefore, this article gives not only a syllabic and accentual analysis but also a quantitative one in connection with the political argument.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio}, author={Campos Vargas, Henry}, year={2020}, month={Dec.} }