Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol52no208
Little, Small, Simple, Oratorical or Simply – Rhetorical: A History of the Terms and Concepts of Oral Rhetorical Genres in Croatian Folkloristics
Davor Nikolić
; Odjek za kroatistiku, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Abstract
This paper provides a review of the history of terms which were used in Croatian literary criticism and folkloristics to name oral rhetorical genres (counting-out rhymes, tongue-twisters, blessings, curses, verbal charms, toasts and mocking rhymes). Relative terminological stability is currently maintained in that the terms used in contemporary research are seemingly synonyms: retorički/govornički žanrovi (rhetorical/oratorical genres) or usmenoknjiževna retorika/govorništvo (oral literary rhetoric/oratory). A history of terms is also a history of concepts pertaining to these genres, which were the last to receive both scholarly expertise and continuous conscious field recording. The paper argues for terminological consistency and proposes the umbrella term rhetorical genres, followed by clear criteria which justify the choice of the term and delimit rhetorical genres.
Keywords
oratory, rhetoric, terminology, oral literary rhetoric, genre
Hrčak ID:
149481
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Publication date:
14.12.2015.
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