The Literary Discourse Approximation between the Rhetoric of: Argumentation and the Rhetoric of Style

Abstract

The relationship between the rhetoric of argumentation and the rhetoric of style constitutes a controversial matter, past and present, thereby splitting theorists and researchers into differing fronts. The relationship between the rhetoric of argumentation and the rhetoric of style constitutes the orbit of this paper, which aims at reinforcing the synthetic correlation of the two structures. This is particularly true in the light of the recent contributions of several epistemological domains such as pragmatics, linguistic argumentation in which the argumentative function in language takes precedence over the informative function; as well as argumentation in discourse where distinction is possible between illocutionary intent and elocutionary effect. The study is based on three major axes; the first focus is on studying the aspects of the relationship between argumentation and the style of Western thinking, past and present. The second axis presents these faces in Arab rhetorical thinking. As for the third axis, it searches in the central regions between them.