Republican Rhetoric as a Theory of Political Deliberation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13079562 |
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| Authors | Marcus Llanque (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-50 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Redescriptions Political Thought Conceptual History and Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2308-0906 • E-ISSN: 2308-0914 |
| Publisher | Helsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI) |
| DOI | 10.7227/r.9.1.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2322215165 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Republicanism as a political language can be easily recognized by its tendency to stress emphatically key notions like virtue and patriotism as well as to argue in a highly appealing style. Hence republican rhetoric is the rhetorical analysis of this language. Through a critical analysis of republican texts it is possible to investigate the linguistic techniques the author is using to persuade the reader: which are his semantic efforts (like stressing certain notions) and what style belongs to a certain argumentation? This approach was already applied to key figures of the republican discourse such as Machiavelli, Harrington or Jefferson.1 It treats rhetoric as a universalistic concept related to republicanism as well as to all other political languages and also to the language of scientific argumentation.2 Even political theorists who officially rejected all rhetorical speech-acts as tools of manipulation were forced to use rhetorical instruments to let their argument look more plausible to the public (Hobbes, Kant).3 Rhetoric, however, is an ambiguous concept. George Kennedy divides all rhetoric into two kinds: primary and secondary. Dealing with rhetoric in the mentioned way of criticism is what George Kennedy calls secondary rhetoric.4 In this sense, secondary rhetoric is the discipline which prevailed from the ancient times through the Middle Ages and formed the core of the higher education at universities. Secondary rhetoric covers different aspects of communication theory like style, grammar, logic, poetics and pronunciation and includes both the linguistic analysis of spoken as well as written oratory. In these rhetoric teachings we can find initial points for modern criticism
Argumentation theory · Art · Deliberation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Style (visual arts · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy
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