Popular song redirects here. For other uses, see Popular Song (disambiguation). Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or folk music.
The suade part that both words share has origins in the Latin root suadÄre, meaning âto urge.â In the case of persuade, the prefix per- means âthoroughly,â intensifying âto urgeâ and giving persuade its meaning of âto convince.â Think of dissuade as the opposite of persuade: the prefix dis- reverses the action of the root, giving the meaning of not ...
Persuasive communication. Persuasion is a form of social influence. It is the process of guiding people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action by rational and symbolic (though not only logical) means. It is a problem-solving strategy, and relies on appeals rather than force. Dissuasion is the process of convincing someone not to believe or act on something.