Review article
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.27.2.5
The Importance of Epideictic Genre in Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric (On the Example of the Analysis of Christmas Messages of Croatian Bishops)
Gabrijela Kišiček
orcid.org/0000-0002-5055-9609
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The paper presents an overview of the historical development and importance of the epideictic genre in rhetoric. Aristotle divided rhetoric into deliberative, judicial and epideictic, distinguishing between them according to their end goal, according to the means of argumentation, according to the dominant means of persuasion, and according to temporal orientation (deliberative rhetoric is directed to the future, judicial to the past, and epideictic to the present). The paper presents the rhetorical specificities of the epideictic genre and emphasizes the importance and value of this type of speech in both classical and modern rhetoric. As an example of current presence of epideictic rhetoric, Christmas messages of Croatian bishops are analyzed in order to show on concrete examples how epideictic speaking looks in contemporary practice, and at the same time Christmas messages are described as one specific and special type of Christian rhetoric.
Keywords
epideictic rhetoric; deliberative rhetoric; pathos; Christmas messages
Hrčak ID:
222393
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Publication date:
5.7.2019.
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