ENG205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ancient Greek, Literal And Figurative Language, Antonio Damasio
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Lady rhetorica: symbol of rhetoric one of 7 liberal arts, one of things that free, educated individuals needed to have formal training in. Who practices rhetoric: everyone, whether they admit it or not, rheteor = someone who consciously practices rhetoric, rhetorician = someone studying theory and practice of rhetoric. How old is rhetoric: derives from ancient greek rhetorike techne 2500 years, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists argue all language and thought are rhetorical in nature so as old as language, either way, around for long time. What is rhetoric"s subject: no proper subject other than itself i. e. rhetoric is set of practices and techniques way of looking at world, human beings, truth, language subject matter could be anything from all. Truth = statements we make about reality: not reality itself, reality is mute object in space is neither true nor untrue, just exists, rhetoricians don"t deny that external world is real.
