Antonio García Berrio

RETÓRICA COMO CIENCIA DE LA EXPRESIVIDAD (PRESUPUESTOS PARA UNA RETÓRICA GENERAL)

This article deals with the reactivation of Rhetoric as the general science of text. General Rhetoric, in which linguistic and poetic studies are included, becomes the most complete science in the analysis of literary and non-literary discourse. The recovery of the genuine state of Rhetoric, with Poetics and the utilization of the categories of Text Linguistics, is felt to be the best way of establishing General Rhetoric, in which the study of elocutio is given an adequate place, and the role of inventio, dispositio and actio is stressed. The author sets up the specialization, as Literary Rhetoric, of a very important section within General Rhetoric. This Literary Rhetoric is constituted by the contribution of both classical Rhetoric and classical and linguistic Poetics.

Estructura composicional: macroestructuras

In this article the authors deal with the study of text macrostructure with the theoretical framework of classical Rhetoric and Text Linguistics, which can be integrated in a general Rhetoric. The compositional aspects of text can be studied with the aid of the categories provided by the rhetorical theory concerning the operation-component of dispositio, in a productive connection with the categories of macrostructural theories. The paragraph structure is studied as to the division of text macrostructure. The relationship between text compositional structure and text pragmatic structure is dealt with, the rhetorical operation component of actio being reactivated.