ENGL104 Lecture Notes - Mikhail Bakhtin, Rhetoric, Thesis Statement

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Rooted in the assumption that certain types of situations provoke similar needs and expectations in audiences, and call for particular kinds of rhetoric. Certain situations occur often, perform similar acts on similar audiences and call for a specific kind of rhetoric. Seeks to discover commonalities in rhetorical patterns across recurring situations. Genre: refers to a distinct group, type, class or category of artefacts that share important characteristics that differentiate it from other groups. Substantive characteristics are those that constitute the content of the rhetoric; stylistic characteristics constitute the form. Content = substantive; form = stylistic: third element is the organising principle: notion that serves as an umbrella label for the various characteristic features of the rhetoric. Is the label for internal dynamic of the constellation that is formed by the substantive, stylistic and situational features of the genre. Greek origins: deliberative/political rhetoric, aimed to persuade audience, forensic speaking, issues of justice, methods for defending and accusing, epideictic, ceremonial discourse.

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