By Jeanne Fahnestock
A finished consultant to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style deals a renewed appreciation of the persuasive strength of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical culture, in addition to on more moderen ways from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how observe selection, sentence shape, and passage development can mix to create potent spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction works, and newspaper stories, Rhetorical type surveys the arguer's concepts on the be aware, sentence, interactive, and passage degrees, and illustrates the long-lasting usefulness of rhetorical stylistics in reading and developing arguments.
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Instead, a French-speaking minority ruled the English-speaking majority, creating a social stratification reinforced by language difference. The influence of Norman French on English after 1066 was significant but selective. Estimates of borrowings run as high as ten thousand words, but many of these additions cluster in areas of meaning that represent aspects of life controlled by the Normans. For example, since the Normans took over the law courts, many current English words associated with legal proceedings derive from Old French: for example, felony, attorney, inquest, jury, plaintiff, sue, plea, verdict, warrant, bailiff, bail, crime, depose, fine, perjury.
While “language of ” studies frequently discuss word choice, with special attention to metaphors or patterns defining lexical fields, sentence parts, types, and patterns are rarely noticed. Attention at this level is left to the specialists. The chapters in this section aim to facilitate sentence analysis. Chapter 7 focuses on predication, the subject and verb choices that construct the rhetorical world, who and what exist and how they are or act. Chapter 8 looks at the modification that hangs on the predication, first by reviewing the scale of possibilities, from clauses and phrases to single words.
Chapter 3 covers traditional methods of categorizing words, by fields, levels, and functional categories (parts of speech). The lexical categories of rhetorical theorists like Kenneth Burke or Richard Weaver offer ways of categorizing word choice that connect directly to audience effects. The methods used by socio linguists and pragmaticists to characterize language varieties are covered in chapter 4. Here the useful notion of register is put to persuasive work in a register shift, a deliberate switch in the level or social/ occupational overtone of a word choice to express an attitude.