The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions
Rhetorical questions are an important feature of Israelite rhetoric as exemplified in the Hebrew Bible. This paper builds on scholarship regarding rhetorical questions and irony to reevaluate one form of unmarked question. Previous scholarship called it an alarmed or surprised rhetorical question, c...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2021
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Año: 2021, Volumen: 46, Número: 1, Páginas: 117-132 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Hebreo
/ Silogismo
/ Pregunta retórica
/ Frase interrogativa
/ Ironía
/ Retórica
/ Sugestión
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | HB Antiguo Testamento |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Syllogism
B Hebrew B RHETORICAL QUESTION B Rhetoric B Irony B unmarked interrogative |
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| Sumario: | Rhetorical questions are an important feature of Israelite rhetoric as exemplified in the Hebrew Bible. This paper builds on scholarship regarding rhetorical questions and irony to reevaluate one form of unmarked question. Previous scholarship called it an alarmed or surprised rhetorical question, characterized by the speaker’s heightened emotional state and linked by a vav to a previous thought to which it lies in opposition. This paper argues that the construction is better understood as a rhetorical strategy, whereby the speaker takes the opinion or suggested course of action of the interlocutor and restates it as the conclusion to a syllogism, after providing premises that make the conclusion absurd. This construction is called an ironic syllogism, as the absurd conclusion is a pseudo-quote said ironically. The pseudo-quote could still be considered an unmarked conducive question since it expects a negative reply from the addressee. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/03090892211001406 |