Implicature phenomena in classical rhetoric

Nemesi, Attila L.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.004

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“…Beyond the PI pointed out above, Hofi's monologue in (2) contains an ironical twist ("Do it yourself" as 'Steal it') and another attitude-implicature (Nemesi 2004(Nemesi , 2010(Nemesi , 2013 parodying the demagogic style of agitprop. The rhetorical triggers of this scornful attitude-implicature are the figures of sermocinatio (fabricating statements, conversations or soliloquies to characterise persons) and polysyndeton (the repetition of conjunctions in close succession), supplemented by intonational (rising-falling pitch glides repeated in the rhythm of the polysyndeton) and non-verbal (mocking enthusiasm on his face, shaking his fists) clues.…”

Section: "éPítem a Csatornámat" ('I Am Building My Gutter' 1975)mentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Contrary to what Gu (1994) and Liu & Zhu (2011) claim, I believe that a precise borderline between pragmatics and rhetoric cannot be established, and, hence, it is useless to sharply demarcate the pragmatic and rhetorical level of discourse analysis. Instead, combining their intellectual resources may help to elaborate a basis for a fully-fledged theory of language use and understanding (Dascal & Gross 1999;Keller 2010;Nemesi 2013). According to Leech (1983: 15), who is not reluctant to call his conversational-maxim approach to pragmatics "rhetorical", the effective use of language is a general endeavour in human communication, not restricted to skilful persuasion, public speaking or literary expression.…”

Section: The Rhetorical Patterns Of Hofi's Political Implicaturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“The big red giant will explode”: Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp

Nemesi

2014

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By taking a pragma-rhetorical approach, this article characterises the genre of Géza Hofi's political humour, developed during the communist Kádár era in Hungary, and investigates implicature as his main rhetorical device for conveying politically sensitive messages to the audience. Three of his most popular and representative performances from the mid-1970s and early 1980s are selected for a thorough investigation of how the use of tropes and certain figures of thought creates implicatures and identification between the actor-humorist and the viewers/listeners. It is demonstrated that Hofi's theatrical stand-up comedy (or performance comedy) makes a monologic genre quasi-dialogic, another necessary component of the special atmosphere of his performances. The analysis is embedded into the East-Central European political context of the Cold War. In addition, the Hungarian societal climate of that time is also touched upon in order to provide better insight into the Hofi-phenomenon.

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Section: "éPítem a Csatornámat" ('I Am Building My Gutter' 1975)mentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: The Rhetorical Patterns Of Hofi's Political Implicaturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“The big red giant will explode”: Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp

Nemesi

2014

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“…The production of texts in society contributes to the content area of topics, standards of evidence, and the social structure of writer-audience relations (Shaw & Vassileva, 2009). In classic rhetoric, for example, empirical phenomena manifest themselves in either public speeches, conversations, or argumentative academic texts (Nemesi, 2013). As rhetoric has become the oldest tradition in linguistic pragmatics (Liu & Zhu, 2011), it is imperative for writers to re-configuring their interdisciplinary perceptions on the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions of academic texts.…”

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Rearticulating Rhetorical Modes of Apologies in Academic Texts: EFL University Studentsâ€™ Voices

Sudirman

Karjono

2020

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The objectives of this research are 1) to describe the frequencies of rhetorical modes of apologies in academic texts written by EFL university students, and 2) to find out problems that they face when constructing rhetorical modes of apologies through exposition, narration, description and argumentation genres of writing. Using documents and interviews, this qualitative research mainly deals with the purposive sampling technique, data reduction, and display concerning rhetorical modes of apologies and problems on constructing them. The research results show that the interpretation of students' rhetorical expressions is meta-pragmatic based on interactions, linguistic nuances, and rhetorical meanings. Rhetorical modes of apologies influence the language production, contextual expressions, and dissemination of messages to audiences or readers. The language used in the rhetorical modes of apologies is integrally connected to one's identity, personality, and situation. Therefore, several efforts are made to see how linguistic differences in a series of interactions lead to denials, avoidance of responsibility, reduction of offensiveness, corrective action, and mortification. The interview results outline that rhetorical modes of apologies function as an integral part of interests, utilities, and moral values instead of some problems the students faced while writing the academic texts.

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“…Focusing on adjacency pairs and their general properties, they make a case for the prevalence of persuasive enthymemes in everyday conversational turns. This theme of implicature and the enthymeme has been explored more recently and in much great depth by Nemesi (2013) in an engaging article that appeared in the Journal of Pragmatics. Nemesi starts by posing the general question as to whether pragmatics should stick to its own concepts or whether it should incorporate key ideas and notions from classical rhetoric.…”

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Discourse implicature, Quintilian and the Lucidity Principle: rhetorical phenomena in pragmatics

Burke

2016

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At a meta-level this article seeks to reduce the perceived gap that exists between classical rhetoric on the one hand and linguistics on the other. The linguistic focus here will be on pragmatics and discourse phenomena. In this article, the main tenets of classical rhetoric will first be set out. Thereafter, some examples of productive crossover work from both sides that has sought to unify rhetoric and pragmatics will be discussed. Next, a number of suggestions will be put forward as to why there has been so little cooperation. These will highlight aspects of scope and audience. Finally, some solutions will be offered as to how those perceived stumbling blocks might be eliminated. In this discussion, there will be a particular focus on the pragmatic notion of implicature from the perspective of Grice, the neo-Griceans and also the Roman rhetorician Quintilian. In the case of the latter, his ideas on the importance of lucidity in productive discourse situations will be explored and recast within a light of modern pragmatic theory.

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Implicature phenomena in classical rhetoric

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

“The big red giant will explode”: Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp

“The big red giant will explode”: Géza Hofi’s political implicatures from the happiest barracks in the socialist camp

Rearticulating Rhetorical Modes of Apologies in Academic Texts: EFL University Studentsâ€™ Voices

Discourse implicature, Quintilian and the Lucidity Principle: rhetorical phenomena in pragmatics

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