Entre rhétorique et dialectique : la constitution des figures d'argumentation - article ; n°137 ; vol.34, pg 63-86

Langages - Année 2000 - Volume 34 - Numéro 137 - Pages 63-86
Recent theories of argumentation taught us that it was not possible to dissociate a theory of language from the principles of argumentation. The faculty of reasonning is at the core of the language in the same way as argumentation uses its resources and its implicit representations of the world to build procedures of validation for its arguments. We find here classical propositions of rhetorics, namely the notions of exemple (exemplum, paradeigma) and enthymem. Notwithstanding the fact that it will be taken care of by speakers, this dialectic at the core of language states the problem of its conceptualization outside of the classical limits of a linguistic. This is why we propose a new direction, taking place in a wider project, based on a module named templum (plur. templa). In particular, we find again Peirce's considerations about abduction, that wider the traditional field of logics in order to integrate new processes of discovery.
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