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

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. T...

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Main Author: Burke Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra 2016-06-01
Series:Topics in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0001