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La Gramatica de la Lengua Vulgar de España (Lovaina, 1559), ¿anónima?
2021
Para demostrar la autoría de la Gramatica de la Lengua Vulgar de España nos basamos en los siguientes puntos: el uso en El Concejo i Consejeros del Príncipe (Amberes, 1559) de Furio Ceriol de las normas ortográficas propuestas en la Gramatica; la denominación de la lengua castellana o española como lengua ‘vulgar’ de España, en la misma obra de Ceriol; las ideas lingüísticas contenidas en la Gramatica y en Bononia de Ceriol; la organización retórica de la Gramatica; y, en último lugar, la comparación entre el poema dedicatorio en la Gramatica y los de las obras de Furio Ceriol.
Presocratic discourse in poetry and prose: The case of Empedocles and Anaxagoras
2012
Abstract This paper explores the differences between poetry and prose in philosophical writing by examining two Pre-Socratic fragments, one in verse and one in prose, that express a very similar thought: Empedocles 59 B 17 Diels/Kranz and Anaxagoras 31 B 8 D./K. Although at first it might seem as though there is a simple division between Empedocles’ opaque and allusive hexameters and Anaxagoras’ sober prose, when we look in detail at the language used by the two authors, a close reading of the passages reveals a more complex picture. Both authors place rhetorical emphasis on their own role as innovator; Anaxagoras’ prose shows a careful attention to style and word choice no less than Empedo…
El sirventès en la poesia catalana dels segles XIV-XV : un catàleg
2018
The sirventes of the troubadour era has been broadly studied, but there are not overall explanations concerning the evolution of the sirventes genre in the Catalan-speaking lands of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This paper propounds a catalogue of sirventesos concerning its historical development, the troubadour models, rhetorical and grammatical treatises, and genre assignment in rubrics. Our catalogue contains thirty-one Catalan sirventesos , including twenty-eight extant items and three items lost. In some cases the literary motifs of the sirventes cross boundaries in a process of poetic hybridization with other moral genres which borrow out themes, images and rhetorical strate…
la suasoria nella preghiera agli dei: percorso diacronico dalla commedia alla tragedia
2009
Il lavoro si basa sul riconoscimento della struttura retorica della suasoria dal campo proprio dell'eloquenza a quello più 'metafisico' della preghiera rivolta ad un dio, nelle forme in cui essa è rappresentata in alcuni generi letterari, fra cui spicca il teatro e, segnatamente, il teatro comico. L'analisi degli esempi addotti è sempre puntuale e opportunamente attenta al dato stilistico, inteso soprattutto come ricorso a parallelismi e figure foniche. Questo tipo di indagine si rivela particolarmente fruttuosa per il teatro plautino, ove la ricchezza retorico-srilistica è caratteristica fondamentale anche della resa scenica. Sono numerosi gli studi che hannointeso dimostrare come Plauto u…
Amor y erotismo en Vargas Llosa y su traducción al inglés
2017
En este artículo analizaremos uno de los ejes de la creación novelística de Mario Vargas Llosa (la exploración del amor y el sexo) a través de las traducciones inglesas de las novelas Pantaleón y las visitadoras (1973), La tía Julia y el escribidor (1977), Elogio de la madrastra (1988) y Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (1997). Si bien en casi todas las obras de Vargas Llosa el amor juega un papel relevante, en estas cuatro obras hay una fabulación explícita sobre la sexualidad humana y un notable trabajo sobre la elaboración lingüística y retórica del lenguaje del amor y el sexo. Traducir el lenguaje relativo al sexo es, sin duda, un área muy sensible, el lugar de confluencia entre las inter…
From “friends” to “patrons”
2009
In this article, we examine a period when Sweden took a leap from a locally-oriented power structure to a more centralised state. This meant a profound social change. We concentrate on the connection between changes in rhetoric and changes in society that took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Our point of departure is that, in rhetoric, there occurred a shift in balance from the rhetoric of friendship to the rhetoric of patronage. In the context of Sweden and Finland, we discuss whether this was linked to changes in administration and in the social order as a whole. Were there any real changes behind this rhetorical transition? Our source material provides a glimpse into wh…
Viva voce: Voice and Voicelessness among Twelfth-Century Clerics
2015
Writing in his Summa on Gratian’s Decretum1 toward 1164, canonist Rufinus of Bologna2 evokes criminal prelates, saying, “vocem accusandi, reprehendi, docendi non habent” (they do not have a voice to accuse, punish, teach).3 Should this enumeration be understood as a commonplace statement about three possible functions of the voice, or should we suspect a set of deeper associations? Is Rufinus’s use of the word “voice” simply an alternative to other rhetorical or stylistic possibilities—such as the word “word” in particular—or is it truly a deliberate choice on the part of the canonist?
Employee Rhetoric in the Acceptance or Rejection of Corporate Environmentalism
2016
This study explores how employees in a Finnish financial company use rhetorical strategies to accept or reject corporate environmentalism. It is based on a qualitative study in which face-to-face interviews were conducted among 30 employees. The study shows how employees rejected corporate environmentalism by dissociating their employer from polluters or by dissociating environmental values from other values in the financial business. It also shows how they accepted corporate environmentalism by associating it with other business virtues and by associating the employer with polluters. The study identifies rhetorical strategies as a means for employees to construct an understanding of corpor…
Rhetoric and Pragmatics: Suggestions for a Fruitful Dialogue
2013
The aim of this paper is to show that classical rhetoric can provide valuable insights in the contemporary debate in pragmatics. This is especially true for Aristotelian rhetoric, due to its philosophical approach. In the first part of the paper, I discusses the conditions under which ancient rhetoric can be a real partner of current pragmatics: (1) rhetoric must be understood as a type of knowledge (a techne) and not as a “jumbles of techniques”; (2) we need to consider persuasion as an anthropological feature and not only as a specific case of communication; (3) we should not exclude truth from the rhetorical field. The second part of the paper focuses on what can be considered the basic …
Kolmas merkitys toiseen
2016
The Third Meaning Squared. Kinekphrasis in Contemporary Finnish Poetry
 In this article I develop the concept of kinekphrasis to designate a particular form of intermediality, speci cally, the verbal representation of cinema or other form of moving image. Kinekphrasis builds upon ekphrasis, the classical rhetorical term that today generally refers to texts about static artworks, such as paintings and statues. Representing the medial complex of cinema, however, sets a distinct sensorial and semiotic challenge to a text and brings about a form of intermediality di erent from the traditional ekphrasis. I exemplify kinekphrasis with a reading of contemporary Finnish poetry, namely, individ…