Rhetoric and linguistics: forms of connection in the interdisciplinary research
Rhetoric and linguistics: forms of connection in the interdisciplinary research

Summary/Abstract: Most studies of the relationship between rhetoric and linguistics primarily take the content perspective, i.e., the overlapping subject areas of the two disciplines, as the main basis for interdisciplinary research involving them. This study adopts instead the perspective of the forms of connection between the disciplines. The object of the study concerns the microforms of interdisciplinary connections, visible in concrete texts, analyzed on the background of such macroforms as interdisciplinarity, among others. The proposed model shows a broader issue of connections of rhetoric with other disciplines, interesting in the context of the often unequal level of formal education of researchers in the disciplines they combine: for one is acquired formally, in the process of education, the other – usually rhetoric – informally, in the process of their own academic life – long learning. This paper adapts Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy of ways to achieve cognitive goals in learning, in this case learning an interdisciplinary approach relevant for rhetoric and linguistics. Using excerpts from texts, the proposed model provides insight into the process of combining rhetoric and linguistics from the perspective of the authors undertaking interdisciplinary research.

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