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- Title
Stasis Salience and the Enthymemic Thesis.
- Authors
Ying Yuan; Harris, Randy Allen; Yan Jiang
- Abstract
The argumentative stasis theory and enthymeme principles richly complement each other but they have rarely been investigated jointly. We correct this oversight first with a principled re-analysis of the stasis tradition, resulting in a double-layer stasis system: Cicero's later system (in De Oratore and Topica) with "action" stasis' subclassification, modified by Kenneth Burke's dramatic pentad of act, scene, agent, agency, purpose (in A Grammar of Motives). Then inspired by Ronald Langacker's salience theory in cognitive linguistics, we secure two stasis deployment strategies: selection (profile against base) and prominence (trajector against landmark). Stasis theory thus solidified, we examine how it interacts with the two central aspects of the enthymemic thesis: incompleteness and probability and how the enthymemic thesis helps explain the force of stasis theory. This inquiry contributes to rhetorical theory and criticism; argumentation studies; and linguistics, by showing the reach of salience theory.
- Subjects
ENTHYMEME (Logic); LINGUISTICS; EMPHASIS (Linguistics); RHETORIC; BURKE, Kenneth, 1897-1993; LANGACKER, Ronald
- Publication
Language & Semiotic Studies, 2017, Vol 3, Issue 3, p103
- ISSN
2096-031X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/lass-2017-030306