Kalfor Dejesus

Professor Pastore 

FIQWS 10105

December 13th, 2022

Rhetorical Analysis Essay

The author of  “Yes, the Players in the World Cup Do Keep Falling Over for No Reason”  is David Papineau, a professor of philosophy of science at King’s College, London; and is the author of most recently “The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience”. This author is credible because his credentials tell us that he is an educated man and the fact that he has already written articles before. The author’s audience in this text seems to be Americans who are new to the game of football and are watching it for the first time because, throughout the text, the author mentions popular American sports such as basketball, American football, Hockey, and Baseball. The piece’s tone is very confronting and forward because the author uses a lot of language and punctuation that brings that tone. An example of this would be “Have these world-beating athletes forgotten their dignity? Surely they can take no pride in such transparent acts of deception”. The purpose of this piece is to try and inform the newer American audience as to why football players fall and flop more compared to other sports. I know this because the article, compares and contrasts different sports and their players and brings it back to the game of football. The genre of this piece is an informative, straightforward, and comparative article that informs the reader on why football players fall and compares it to the rest of the sports world. The medium that is used to communicate is an online article posted in the New York Times that covers a wide variety of news. Related things that were happening around the world during the release of this article were the beginning of the 2022 world cup in Qatar. What this says about the timeliness of this piece is that it is heavily influenced by this event as the topic is football players and the world cup. The cultural expectation for this piece is for the people reading this to know about football and also be informed or a fan of sports. Also for them to be very new to the sport. The author’s stance in the article seems to be that he doesn’t like the fact that the players flop because he states “I feel the same about football players flopping to get their opponents into trouble. It’s not just a deception. It’s the mean-spiritedness of trying to get someone punished for what he didn’t do.”