Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... function of language , which supplants the “ aural ” function , a shift that is marked by the privileged po- sition accorded to dialectic , or logic , within the trivium . Rhetoric in its tradi- tional form is deprived of any claim to ...
... function of language , which supplants the “ aural ” function , a shift that is marked by the privileged po- sition accorded to dialectic , or logic , within the trivium . Rhetoric in its tradi- tional form is deprived of any claim to ...
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... function as an element of persuasion - not as the hortatory and coercive force of the traditional rhetoric but as ... function for which metalinguistic logic can account , as we have seen in the case of the Logique de Port - Royal . All ...
... function as an element of persuasion - not as the hortatory and coercive force of the traditional rhetoric but as ... function for which metalinguistic logic can account , as we have seen in the case of the Logique de Port - Royal . All ...
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... function instead as differential markers ; they open the differential space of tropological displacement that bars , crosses out the function of the sign as a referential bearer of sense . That is , tropes are differential markers in ...
... function instead as differential markers ; they open the differential space of tropological displacement that bars , crosses out the function of the sign as a referential bearer of sense . That is , tropes are differential markers in ...
Contents
Logic and Rhetoric | 1 |
Natures Visibility | 37 |
Persuasion | 72 |
Copyright | |
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Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific ... Erec R. Koch Limited preview - 1997 |
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