Pragmatics and rhetoric for discourse analysis: some conceptual remarks
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Larrazabal, Jésus M. [1] ; Koorta, Kepa [1]
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[1] Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Leioa, España
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- Localización: Manuscrito: revista internacional de filosofía, ISSN 0100-6045, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2002 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Jul./Dez.), págs. 233-248
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper focuses on discourse analysis, particularly persuasive discourse, using pragmatics and rhetoric in a new combined way, called by us PragmaRhetoric. It can be said that this is a cognitive approach to both pragmatics and rhetoric. Pragmatics is essentially Gricean, Rhetoric comes from a new reading of Aristotle’s Rhetoric, extending his notion of discourse to meso- and micro-discourses. Two kinds of intentions have to be considered: first, communicative intention, and, then, persuasive intention. The fulfilment of those intentions is achieved by a successful persuasive-communicative action. The psychological, philosophical and logical aspects derived from the pragma-rhetorical perspective are crucial in view of its applications in several practical domains.