rhetorolect
rhetorolect noun: a type of discourse that has a characteristic configuration of topics, themes, and arguments.
Noun
rhetorolect (plural rhetorolects)
- A type of discourse that has a characteristic configuration of topics, themes, and arguments.
- If the elaborations "catch on" in some way, and themselves become developed, it is likely that we are looking at the creation of a "rhetorolect," a configuration of topoi and their argumentation that "is generated through a process whereby widely recognized topoi are recontextualized and...2003, Vernon Kay Robbins, David B. Gowler, L. Gregory Bloomquist, Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins, →ISBN, page 175
- In other words, within each rhetorolect or language environment there are social places (like the household, the empire, nature) and cultural spaces (like God's world, the Diaspora, the kingdom) in which people think, speak, feel and act to construct meaningful lives.2007, Robert L. Webb, John S. Kloppenborg, Reading James with New Eyes, →ISBN
Forms of rhetorolect
| plural | rhetorolects |
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Origin of rhetorolect
From Latin rhētorica from Ancient Greek ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”) + from Latin lectus, form of Latin legō (“to read”).
Questions about rhetorolect
- What does rhetorolect mean?
- Rhetorolect means a type of discourse that has a characteristic configuration of topics, themes, and arguments.
- What part of speech is rhetorolect?
- Rhetorolect is a noun.
- What is the plural of rhetorolect?
- The plural of rhetorolect is rhetorolects.
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