Encyclopedia of Rhetoric

Nagy, Gregory

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“…A Latinized Greek word translated most directly as "anticipation" (that is, a nominalization of "to anticipate"), prolepsis (πρóληψις) has traditionally been seen to operate at both the sentence level and the discourse level. For operation at the sentence level, The Encyclopaedia of Rhetoric offers perhaps the clearest definition: a permutative metataxeme [that] anticipates the logical relations of consequences in a sentence (which are the result of the predicate) by means of an attributive adjective or participle that functionally represents an assumed consecutive clause or gerund [25].…”

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“…That is, an alteration of sequence such that when event-x precedes event-y temporally, event-y precedes event-x syntactically. Grün-Oesterreich gives the rather tortuous example from Shakespeare, "To break within the bloody house of life" (King John, 4.2.210) [25,47], explicating it like this:…”

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“…The correct logical reconstruction of [this example] is "To break within the house of life [the body] and make it bloody [for example by a dagger]." But a more obvious example, also gruesome, might be the John Keats's lines from "Isabella" [2,25]:…”

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Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

Mehlenbacher

2017

Argument & Computation

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Identifying rhetorical figures with marginal to non-existent lexico-syntactic signatures poses significant challenges for computational approaches reliant upon structural definitions or descriptions. One such figure is prolepsis (πρóληψις), which this essay charts out in some detail, addressing the challenges and the benefits of rendering such figures computationally tractable through the use of argument schemes with attention to metadiscursive or macro-discursive norms offered by pragmadialectical traditions.

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Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

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2017

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“…We will pass by the intricacies of many historic details, only to state that the study of the collections of old acts and documents 13 used across the territory inhabited by the Romanians reflects the presence of two major epistolary templates: the western, Roman type, materialized in letters written in the medieval Latin and in some other languages spoken by the Romanians' catholic neighbours (German, Hungarian etc. ), and the eastern, Byzantine type, witnessed in texts drawn up in accordance with the Slavonic and Greek traditions (Camariano-Cioran, 1971, Iorga, 1972, Panaitescu, 1965. Before the emergence of the earliest letters written in Romanian (the 16 th century), the chanceries were dominated by the epistolary templates mainly following the Roman (cf.…”

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Romanian letter-writing: a cultural-rhetorical perspective (I)

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2016

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The paper aims at revealing the cultural and rhetorical features of the Romanian letter-writing by outlining the key stages in the evolution of the letter in Europe and in the Romanian cultural space. In the subsequent ages, the profile of the rhetorical frame that enabled the development of letter-writing was governed by distinct guidelines, from the discursive canons of the Antiquity and the attempts to set out an epistolary theory in the postclassical age or the emergence of the medieval epistolary manuals and of the works of epistolary rhetoric from the Renaissance to the flourishing of private correspondence in the Baroque and the Enlightenment. The natural tendency to adapt the epistolary rhetoric to the idiomatic resources of the vernacular languages spoken in Europe favoured the outset and the advancement of a Romanian epistolary style whose cultural and rhetorical coordinates are sketched in the present article."The letter is a faithful messenger" Bernhard Perger, Grammatica Nova, 1485 Preliminary remarksA multimillennial history ties letter-writing to the life of human societies, and the epistolary cultures nourished by the avatars of this major communicative activity prove that along the way the letter was conferred a rich variety of uses, either of public or of private nature. As a means of ensuring long-distance communication between individuals and/or groups, the letter preserves historical data that highlight both the circumstances of the communicative process and the personality facets of the protagonists involved in the epistolary exchange.The presence of the letter in various fields of human life reflects the old age of this efficient means of communication which was progressively adapted to face the challenges and the changes in technological progress, from the ancient Babylonian messages engraved on clay tablets (Roberts, 1843, p. 1) to the first medieval treatises on the art of letter-writing, ars dictaminis (Murphy, 2001, p. 203), and, later on, to the tradition of epistolary etiquette manuals (Bly, 2004) or to the electronic patterns of e-mails (Crystal, 2004, p. 94-128). More than a form of dialogue at a distance, as it was defined by some of the Greek and Roman rhetoricians, the letter is the expression of the human ability to store in writing flashing sequences from the kaleidoscope flux of reality, as filtered in the mind's laboratory of notions and images. From this point of view, one might even argue that all the relevant elements in the history of writing (Fischer, 2001), namely the writing tools, materials and devices, the types of writing and the canons of textual construction, also shed a light on the cultural destiny of the letter. Moreover, letters do not provide only the material evidence that certifies the advancements in the dynamics of writing, but they can also be interpreted as ideological artefacts that mirror the individual mentalities or the spirit of an age. Just as a painting offers the viewer clues and insights on both the outer, material world in which th...

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“…326. ), míg al-Musawi úgy fogalmaz, hogy az érvelés tudománya olyan érvekkel foglalkozik, amelyeket az emberek vélekedéseik és meggyőződéseik alátámasztása érdekében alkalmaznak azért, hogy befolyásolják mások gondolatait és cselekedeteit (al-Musawi [2006] Al-Musawi azonban arra hívja fel figyelmünket, hogy még a fenti leírás sem ragadja meg az érvelési tanulmányok sokféleségét, mivel számos különböző felfogás létezik az érvelés alapvető jellemzőivel, és azzal a perspektívával kapcsolatosan, amelyből vizsgálják. Daniel J.…”

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Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

Romanian letter-writing: a cultural-rhetorical perspective (I)

A vizuális retorika triadikus koncepciója: elméleti keret és esettanulmányok: vizuális retorika a katasztrófa-hírközlésben

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