Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... language conceived as a cognitive system , rhetoric functions as ornamentation within semantics . This account sidesteps the function of tropes as agents of semantic displacement . In the texts of Pascal , the ex- emplary rhetor , can ...
... language conceived as a cognitive system , rhetoric functions as ornamentation within semantics . This account sidesteps the function of tropes as agents of semantic displacement . In the texts of Pascal , the ex- emplary rhetor , can ...
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... language , and its discourses function as speech acts rather than as fallacious statements of fact . Such rhetori- cal language is founded on performative acts of positing , and language in this case labors as a semiotic code rather ...
... language , and its discourses function as speech acts rather than as fallacious statements of fact . Such rhetori- cal language is founded on performative acts of positing , and language in this case labors as a semiotic code rather ...
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... language of the passions and of the will is first and essentially the power or force to posit , which as an effect produces the illusion of referential meaning . In other words , the fact that the proposition is inscribed within the ...
... language of the passions and of the will is first and essentially the power or force to posit , which as an effect produces the illusion of referential meaning . In other words , the fact that the proposition is inscribed within the ...
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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Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales Charles M. Natoli No preview available - 2005 |
La littérature, le XVIIe siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique Hélène Merlin-Kajman Limited preview - 2008 |