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A General Rhetoric is a 1970 book by the Belgian
It became a classic of human sciences and has been translated in more than 20 languages.[citation needed]
Figures of narration
Hjelmslev distinguished between the expression plane and the content plane, and then further between form and substance.[4] Moreover, Hjelmslev's considered the "internal structure of language" to be a system of figurae, which he considered, instead of the sign, to be the ultimate semiotic unity.[4][5][6] His analysis distinguished between expression-figurae (or figurae of the expression plane) and content-figurae,[4][6] and then within each between form and content.[7] Groupe μ's essay discusses figures of the substance of expression , figures of the form of expression, and figures of form of content. They avoid discussion the figures of the substance of content, wondering if they are actually conceivable, and leave them to future works building a universal theory of semantics.[7]
For the figures of the substance of expression they make the examples of
Regarding the definition of form of expression, one of the examples given is syntactic play.
Editions
- 1970, original French edition published by Larousse
- 1981, English translation by Paul B. Burrell and Edgar M. Slotkin. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 1982, paperback edition, published by Seuil (collection "Points").
References
- ^ Eco (1976)
- ^ James J. Murphy (2000) Grammar and rhetoric in Roman schools, in Sylvain Auroux (editor) History of the language sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present, part XII, article 70, section 4, p.491
- ^ Nöth (1990) pp.341,358
- ^ a b c Nöth (1990)
- ^ Hjelmslev [1943]
- ^ a b Beaugrande (1991)
- ^ a b Groupe μ, section II.2.0
- ^ a b c Groupe μ, section II.2.1.1 Physical medium and substance
Further reading
- Beaugrande (1991) [Linguistic Theory: The Discourse of Fundamental Works], section on Louis Hjelmslev.
- Eco (1976) Trattato di semiotica generale, sections 3.8.1 and 3.8.4
- Hjelmslev [1943] Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, chapter 13, pp. 47, 65, 67, and cf. 6.26-30
- Nöth, Winfried (1990) Handbook of semiotics, pp. 66, 70-1 section 3
- Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (1997) Précis de sémiotique générale, Brussels, Duculot (paperback : Paris, Le Seuil, 2000).
Further reading
- Muzzioli, Francesco (2004) Le strategie del testo: introduzione all'analisi retorica della letteratura