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DESPRE OAMENI ŞI STILURI
About people and styles

Author(s): Cristinel Munteanu
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Special Branches of Philosophy, Communication studies, Philosophy of Language, Theory of Communication, Rhetoric
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: individual styles; functional styles; types of logos; rhetors; orators;

Summary/Abstract: Buffon is the author ot the most famous definition of style: Le style c’est l’homme même (Style is man himself). Referring to individual style as well, Nicolae Manolescu inverted this sentence, asserting that the statement Man is style (itself) is also valid in some situations. In this paper I aim at showing the extent at which the inverted formula can be applied to functional or collective styles, too. It seems that the way in which the great rhetors described the three types of style theorized in Antiquity (the plain, the middle and the grand), with reference to some human examples of excellent orators, offers us the proofs we were looking for.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 33-40
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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