The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History by Nancy S. Struever;

Author:Nancy S. Struever;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2023-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Foucault, L’Ordre du discours (Paris, 1971). “Fables of Power” was presented first as a paper at the conference “Narrativity and Power” at Rutgers University, 1979.

Y. Malkiel, Etymological Dictionaries: A Tentative Typology (Chicago, 1976), pp. 16, 47.

Thus, for example, H. J. Jackson ends his article “Coleridge, Etymology, and Etymologic,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 44 (1983), with this quotation from Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection, (London, 1825), p. xi: “accustom yourself to reflect on the words you hear, or read, their birth, derivation, and history. For if words are not THINGS, they are LIVING POWERS, by which the things of most importance to mankind are actuated, combined, and humanized,” p. 88.

The very fine “Etymologia et origo à travers la traditione latine,” by Guy de Poerck, in Anamnesis: Gedankboeck E. A. Leemans (Brugge, 1970), pp. 191-228, is a useful brief synthesis; basic references are, of course, the article “Etymologie” by I. Opelt in the Reallexicon für Antike und Christentum (Stuttgart, 1964), vol. VI, col. 797f, and the entry “etymologia” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae; on the inventive and figurative uses of etymology see also H. Lausberg, Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik, (München, 1960), sections 111, 392, 466.

Cicero, De inventione, (Loeb ed., Cambridge, Mass, 1960), II.xvii.52; Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, (Loeb ed., Cambridge, Mass., 1959), vol. 3; VII.x. 1.

Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum sive Originum, Libri XX (Oxford, 1957), ed. W. M. Lindsay, I.xxix: “Nam dum videris unde ortum est nomen; citius vim eius intelligis,” cited in de Poerck, p. 214, and also in E. R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (New York, 1953), in Excursus XIV, “Etymology as a Category of Thought,” 497. Bernard is also cited by Curtius; the quotation is from his Commentary on the Aeneid (see Curtius, p. 498).

On etymological figure as pun, see Aristotle, Ars Rhetorica (OCT, Oxford, 1959), ed. W. D. Ross, in the discussion of skommata, 1410b.

Institutio oratoria, I.vi. 1f: “Sermo constat ratione vel vetustate, auctoritate consuetudine. Rationem praestat praecipue analogia, nonunquam et etymologia.”

C. Besomi and M. Regioliosa, “Valla e Toretlli,” Italia medioevale e umanistica, 9 (1966), esp. 75-121.

Thus, history replicates mode; or, first argument, then event; see P. Zumthor, “Fr. Etymologie, (essai d’histoire sémantique),” in Etymologica; Walter von Wartburg zum siebsigsten Geburtstag (Tubingen, 1958), pp. 877, 880.

C. A. Dukerus, Opuscula varia de latinitate iurisconsultorum veterum (Lugduni Batavorum, 1711), p. 30. A compilation of suspicion is the OED’s entry, “to etymologize.”

Y. Malkiel, “Etymology and Modern Linguistics,” Lingua, 36 (1975), 109.

Ch. Kahn, The Verb “Be” in Ancient Greek, in J. Verhaar, ed., The Verb “Be” and its Synonyms; Foundations of Language, Supp. Series, v.XVI, (Dordrecht, 1973), 371f.

Malkiel, Etymological Dictionaries, p. 33.

Malkiel, Etymological Dictionaries, p. 44.

G. Genette, Figures III (Paris, 1972), p. 71f.

Argumentative and narrative functions are associated in a peculiarly loose fashion. The etymology may be described as a topical argument or as an argument from exemplum, arguing content from name (adnotatio) or relating a case, invoking the event of naming as exemplary, and illustrating a proper use. Indeed, the ambiguity, the instability of the etymological gambit has its analogue in the exemplum; see A.

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