On the Rhetorical Effectiveness of Implicit Meaning - A Pragmatic Approach
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- de Oliveira Fernandes, Daniel ORCID University of Fribourg
- Oswald, Steve ORCID University of Fribourg
- 22.12.2022
Published in:
- Languages. - MDPI AG. - 2022, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 1-21
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
Rhetorical effect
Insinuation
Implicature
Presupposition
Back-door
Speech act
Experimental methodologies
English
This paper explores the interface between pragmatics and argumentation by considering the impact of different types of implicit meaning on different types of rhetorical effects. On the rhetorical front and drawing on classical rhetoric but going beyond the Aristotelian rhetorical triangle (ethos, logos, pathos), the paper discusses an open list of rhetorical effects affecting speakers, audiences, messages and the conversational flow of interaction. On the pragmatic front, the paper accounts
for how specific features of different types of implicit meaning (presupposition, implicature and back-door speech acts) are likely to trigger specific rhetorical effects. In so doing, it discusses and justifies the need for and the feasibility of an experimental investigation of the rhetorical effectiveness of implicit meaning.
for how specific features of different types of implicit meaning (presupposition, implicature and back-door speech acts) are likely to trigger specific rhetorical effects. In so doing, it discusses and justifies the need for and the feasibility of an experimental investigation of the rhetorical effectiveness of implicit meaning.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'anglais
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Language, linguistics
- License
- CC BY
- Open access status
- gold
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.3390/languages8010006
- ISSN 2226-471X
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/323458
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