Dr. Salihu has a PhD in rhetoric, composition, and linguistics from Arizona State University, where she has been teaching for the past nine years. She specializes in the rhetoric of radicalIslamistsand studies the ways in which groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS recruit new followers on the Internet. She also studies MMORPGs, especially the social networks formed between players. In her spare time, she examines the various forms of cat memes in virtual spaces andplays and watches hockey.

This presentation will be oriented to show the importance of Rhetoric (Ethos, Pathos and Logos) for Inter-Disciplinary Communication. The basic reasons are the following:

1. The Ethos is a necessary condition in order to have credibility in the eyes of people from other disciplines.
2. The Pathos (emotion) is highly desirable (even necessary) because people from other disciplines might be less self-motivated to listen to someone from other discipline and to make the respective mental effort in trying to understand from another disciplinary perspective, reflect on this understanding, and potentially generate analogical thinking which is input to logical thinking and to hypothesis formulation which will be tested later according the listener discipline.
3. The Logos is essential for being able to translate the disciplinary language to natural language. This require to be knowledgeable not only in the technical/disciplinary Logos but also in the general Logos with its inherent natural language correct use (Grammar) and the communicational skills to generate an effective dialogue and critical thinking (Dialectic). Hence an updated TRIVIUM might be essential for inter-disciplinary communication.