Hasil untuk "Style. Composition. Rhetoric"

Margarita Esther Sánchez Cuervo

This paper explores the use of rhetorical figures in six 19th-century English manuals devoted to logic, rhetoric, elocution, style, and composition. These handbooks mainly contain an instructive text-type, aiming to teach students various aspects of English composition, such as the elements of writing and parts of speech, among other contents. However, some of these works incorporate rhetorical figures as tools to enhance persuasion. Using a qualitative approach, the analysis identifies three main categories of figures: tropes, figures of speech (or schemes), and figures of thought. The examples studied reveal that the authors blend the expository style typical of traditional grammars with rhetorical figures designed to engage the audience through their persuasive and expressive functions. Future research will expand the comparison of the use of rhetorical arguments and figures in a broader range of grammars.

Anna Khalonina

This article examines the role of dialogical negation (DN) in contemporary French-language scientific discourse on cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, two notions that carry a heavy discursive memory but are still exploited in the humanities. Based on the conception of DN as an arena of asymmetrical opposition of discourses, the study shows how DN contributes to delimiting the zones of the (un)speakable in academic texts. The article stresses that DN acts both as an indicator of the evolution of discursive norms and as a tool for it by allowing a form of “distant recognition” of the arguments that speakers are unable to carry, for a variety of reasons. The article also contributes to the study of the internal structure of the ND, by distinguishing the “single” attribution of the utterance subject to negation from the “double” attribution.

Adrian Guyot

En la intensa y variada recepción de Maquiavelo en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII, Juan de Mariana y Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas proponen lecturas singulares de la obra del florentino, cuyo nombre se encontraba entonces en las páginas del Índice de los libros prohibidos del cardenal Quiroga. El propósito de este artículo es doble: estudiar las ideas de Maquiavelo apropiadas por ambos autores, y la manera como logran Mariana y Herrera integrar en sus propios tratados discursos sacados del pensamiento del  secretario florentino, considerado autor damnatus en la España de la Contrarreforma. La reformulación de argumentos, los plagios o la atribución de sus ideas a autoridades nebulosas serán así otros tantos procedimientos empleados por los autores españoles, entre ellos Mariana y Herrera, para poder discutir con Maquiavelo sin despertar la ira de la Inquisición española.

Renato Nicassio

Il presente articolo si propone di analizzare la caratterizzazione essenzialmente negativa che la rete subisce nella letteratura contemporanea. Nella prima parte si discute la tendenza a ignorare Internet e i suoi effetti sulla società. Nella seconda parte ci si concentra su due romanzi, The Circle e No One Is Talking About This, che invece mettono Internet al centro delle propri storie, per criticarlo.

Hécate Vergopoulos

The body is an essential component of tourism. How do travel guides talk about it? How are the tourists’ bodies presented, represented, evoked if not suggested in these books? What is said about them but also, what is silenced? This paper aims to bring some answers to these questions by using a semio-discursive analysis of short trip travel guides to New York. It shows the importance of the reader’s body in tourism, and qualifies the traveler's body by distinguishing between the body of the senses and the body of movement in order to study the relationship that links the two.

José Félix Álvarez Alonso

El predicador franciscano del s. XVI Alfonso de Castro escribe un conjunto de veinticinco homilías dedicadas al salmo 50. En su composición se mezclan de forma continua y magistral periodos de discurso que son propios del autor junto con otros ajenos al mismo y de procedencia distinta. En el presente artículo abordamos la presencia de este discurso ajeno en virtud de dos necesidades específicas: en primer lugar, revisar y actualizar una propuesta tipológica anterior y en segundo lugar profundizar en la distribución de tales periodos a lo largo de los sermones, así como en los mecanismos utilizados por el autor a la hora de intercalarlos entre sus propias palabras.

Filippo Pennacchio

In termini narratologici, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore è una you-narrative, cioè un racconto in seconda persona, che ruota intorno a un ‘tu’. Da un lato, questo articolo intende soffermarsi su tale aspetto, mettendo in luce la peculiarità nell’uso della seconda persona da parte di Calvino. Dall’altro lato, intende invece spiegare perché il ‘tu’ si rivela decisivo nell’economia del romanzo. Dopo aver descritto le dinamiche enunciative che ne sono alla base, si ragionerà su come la scelta del ‘tu’ si inserisca in un discorso più ampio, relativo al rapporto fra autore e lettore e all’esperienza del testo che Calvino sembra voler rappresentare.

Selenco Vega Jácome

En la poesía de López Degregori (Lima, 1952), se configura la imagen de un hablante lírico plenamente consciente de su rol de escritor: por un lado, la poesía es para él un acto de conocimiento que le permite captar la realidad en la que vive; por el otro, paradójicamente, la práctica de este oficio supone ciertos límites y riesgos que le impiden aprehender a plenitud las verdades de la existencia humana. Esta imagen del poeta se ejemplifica bastante bien en “El oficio el deseo el maleficio”, uno de los textos más representativos de Una casa en la sombra (1986).

Helena Aguilà Ruzola, Donatella Siviero

Introduzione al supplemento annuale “Volti del tradurre” a cura di Helena Aguilà Ruzola e Donatella Siviero. La sezione accoglie i contributi presentati alla IV Giornata internazionale sulla traduzione “La rappresentanzione della parola. Quando la traduzione va in scena”, tenutasi il 1 dicembre 2017 presso la Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi di Milano, in collaborazione con l’Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona e l’Università di Messina.   Introduction to the annual supplement “Volti del tradurre” by Helena Aguilà Ruzola and Donatella Siviero. The section welcomes the contributions presented at the IV Giornata internazionale sulla traduzione “La rappresentanzione della parola. Quando la traduzione va in scena”held on December 1st, 2017 at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi of Milan, in collaboration with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Messina.

Marie-Anne Paveau

The digital discursive worlds opened by the social web have enabled the rapid development of militant discourses exploiting the reticularity of digital spaces and their relational capacity. After a description of the current native digital usages of feminist activists and their historical genesis, this paper examines two phenomena characterizing the contemporary feminist discourse: the deployment, in feminist blogs and social networks, of web native and specific discursive forms of resignification of aggressive or insulting content towards women ; the use of technographics, that is to say composite productions inseparably assembling image and text (Two examples are developed here: the "We can do it!" meme and feminist bingo, a list of anti-feminist arguments inscribed on an online grid similar to that of the famous popular game).

Alison Sagara Monaghan

This article examines representations of mental health in young adult (YA) litearature, taking up Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) as its case study. Paying attention to the affordances of the genre of “teen sick-lit,” I connect such YA literature to the broader field of narrative medicine and consider what can be gained from this relationship. After a careful analysis of Chbosky’s novel, I conclude with a set of criteria that serve as markers of YA texts that productively convey mental health experiences. Although my focus here is on mental illness representations, my criteria and textual analysis can be extended to narratives that focus on other illness and diseases, as well.

Yulia Ivanova, Pavel Sokolov

Recensiamo il libro Ad populum. Parlare alla pancia: retorica del populismo in Europa. Eds. Bruno Capaci e Giuditta Spassini. Bologna: I libri di Emil di Odoya srl., 2016. Stampa. Review of Ad populum. Parlare alla pancia: retorica del populismo in Europa. Eds. Bruno Capaci and Giuditta Spassini. Bologna: I libri di Emil di Odoya srl., 2016. Print

Marianne Doury

This paper focuses on the issue of the researcher’s attitude to his object (in particular, on the possibility of adopting a critical stance). This question concerns the whole realm of social sciences; here, it is tackled in the light of the author’s experience in argumentation studies. She distinguishes three perspectives (descriptive positioning, normative positioning, militant positioning) and compares two analyses she produced of some political discourse. These analyses obey different logics (an epistemic and a political one), and display contrasting discursive and enunciative characteristics. While admitting that caring for critical activism is legitimate, the author concludes to the necessity of acknowledging and maintaining the split between what falls under science and what falls under politics in argumentation studies.

Roberto Talamo

Il pensiero filosofico di Ricœur si è sviluppato attraverso un costante e proficuo confronto con le diverse forme della letteratura antica e moderna. Con una carrellata attraverso i testi del filosofo e quelli dei principali interpreti della sua riflessione, si ricostruisce la trama significativa dei nessi tra filosofia e generi letterari: questi offrono al pensiero ricoeuriano la possibilità di «pensare di più» i nodi etici del campo filosofico.

Alessandra Diazzi

L’articolo “Il sapere inquietante di Elvio Fachinelli: una psicoanalisi ‘anni Settanta’” propone una riflessione sull’avvento, lo sviluppo e la ricezione della psicoanalisi in Italia durante gli anni Settanta. L’analisi della figura dello psicoanalista italiano Elvio Fachinelli e della sua peculiare pratica psicoanalitica è finalizzata ad una più ampia comprensione del clima politico, sociale e culturale del decennio caldo italiano, a partire dal Sessantotto in poi. In questo periodo, infatti, la psicoanalisi di Elvio Fachinelli non rimane affatto una questione clinica avulsa dal contesto sociale, al contrario legandosi strettamente ad alcune delle questioni più peculiari e rappresentative dell’epoca considerata. Un’analisi delle posizioni di Fachinelli, dunque, oltre a mettere in luce svariati e significativi aspetti dei rapporti della psicoanalisi con il contesto socio-culturale degli anni Settanta, illuminerà quest’ultimo tramite una rilettura dal punto di vista di quel «sapere inquietante» –così Fachinelli definì la psicoanalisi- capace di restituire un’innovativa mappa del momento storico, del background culturale e dei suoi rapporti con il presente.

Isabel Moreno Ferrero

In the first part of this paper (Talia dixit 5, 2010, 1-24), we analysed the general features of those passages in which Livy used laughter as a main or underlying theme, on the basis of a series of terms (risus /ridere; inridere/risus // arridere) whose application could allow us to infer the general concept of this particular emotion and gesture in AVC. Once this aspect has been examined, the main goal of this paper is not only the revision of those characteristics concerning this primary “emotion” within the context of the author’s work itself, but also the comprehensive study of such texts in order to highlight the way in which Livy set both the situation and the characters, creating a certain dramatic actio from which his historiographical and literary project benefitted. Only such an analysis helps us observe the rich spectrum of nuances used by the Paduan historian. Thus, we have intended to show in this paper how Livy obtained new effects by modifying and applying rhetorical theory; how he managed to make some of his characters singularly remembered by hearers or readers thanks to a selection of topics which fitted each of his particular purposes; and finally, how he was able to relate passages in different books and contexts through specific formulas that evoked in the recipient of his work the echo and image sought. Therefore, this paper will show a number of nuances higher than previously expected, since against presumptions, the encomium (praise) in Rome still generated lights and shadows.

Steven Lynn

Rhetoric and composition is an academic discipline that informs all other fields in teaching students how to communicate their ideas and construct their arguments. It has grown dramatically to become a cornerstone of many undergraduate courses and curricula, and it is a particularly dynamic field for scholarly research. This book offers an accessible introduction to teaching and studying rhetoric and composition. By combining the history of rhetoric, explorations of its underlying theories, and a survey of current research (with practical examples and advice), Steven Lynn offers a solid foundation for further study in the field. Readers will find useful information on how students have been taught to invent and organize materials, to express themselves correctly and effectively, and how the ancient study of memory and delivery illuminates discourse and pedagogy today. This concise book thus provides a starting point for learning about the discipline that engages writing, thinking, and argument.

Guillermo González del Campo

El presente trabajo pretende aclarar el sentido que tienen las menciones de Trajano en los escritores cercanos a los emperadores Teodosio y Justiniano. Las causas van desde el panegírico hasta el rechazo del pasado pagano. Dentro de este análisis se descubren, a través de este punto concreto, algunos de los métodos específicos utilizados por estos autores para halagar a sus destinatarios.