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Epideictic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epideictic or praise and blame rhetoric is one of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric . This is rhetoric of ceremony, commemoration, declamation...
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The Greek epideictic means "fit for display." Thus, this branch of oratory is sometimes called "ceremonial" or "demonstrative" oratory. Epideictic oratory was oriented to public occasions calling for speech or writing in the here and now.
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Virtue (the noble) ... ; That topic of invention in which one refers to generally accepted ideas of what is virtuous or noble. ... Robert Bennett's Book of Virtues is a great example employing this topic of invention as the thematic basis for an entire anthology.
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One of Aristotle's major branches of rhetoric: speech or writing that praises or blames. See also: ... Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ... nor more, as we have recently seen them, aged and venerable objects of admiration and regard. They are no more. They are dead. But how little is there of the great and good which can...
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Epideictic speech topics to display a proposition of the ethical and universal values in a ceremonial speech ... My Examples of Epideictic Speech Topics...
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In this essay the four aspects of epideictic discourse are discussed: (1) it is a social praise, (2) it treats its target audience as spectators (theorioi), (3) the temporal orientation in epideictic communication is largely connected to the present time, and (4) it is the rhetoric of a system that constantly...
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In this paper I argue that classical and modern definitions of epideictic rhetoric do not fully account for the function of this rhetorical form. Instead I seek to challenge the notion of epideictic and deliberative rhetoric as separate genres and instead place them on a continuum based on contextual circumstances.
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Daniel Webster's Epideictic Speaking A Study in Emerging Whig Virtue ... EPIDEICTIC SPEAKING; Many of Webster's addresses have been examined by rhetorical critics; but most ignore questions of genre. Those who do attempt some judgment of form analyze only a single genre.
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A form of rhetoric in which “praise is based on action,” epideictic rhetoric is traditionally envisioned as a form of speech that “makes clear the greatness of virtue” (Aristotle 84). In his reexamination of traditional rhetoric, Chaim Perelman extends the goals of epideictic rhetoric as a way to “strengthen...
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Gorgias' Use of the Epideictic ... In this construal, the epideictic rhetor differs from his pragmatic counterpart in that rather than using his art to address an audience engaged in legal or political deliberation, he displays his rhetorical skill before all audience of spectators (theoroi) who observe and judge that skill.
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