The Orator's Education¶
Quintilian. (2002). The Orator's Education. Harvard University Press.
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4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Domain-specific¶
- Concession
- Classical forensic and deliberative rhetoric — the origin (concessio / paramologia in Quintilian and Cicero), where granting a defensible point opens space for the substantive argument that follows.
This sourceQuintilian’s Institutio Oratoria names concession among the figures, describing it as leaving some points to the judgment of the jury or of one’s opponent and as pretending to admit something unfavourable in order to show confidence in one’s cause.
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“The figure known as concession springs from practically the same source as communication”
- Classical forensic and deliberative rhetoric — the origin (concessio / paramologia in Quintilian and Cicero), where granting a defensible point opens space for the substantive argument that follows.
- Delivery (in Rhetoric)
- Quintilian devotes extended discussion in the Institutio Oratoria to the proper uses of the hand, arm, head, and gaze
This sourceQuintilian’s Institutio Oratoria 11.3, with extended treatment of the delivery of the head, the gaze, the arm and the hands.
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“The head, being the chief member of the body, has a corresponding importance in delivery”
- Quintilian devotes extended discussion in the Institutio Oratoria to the proper uses of the hand, arm, head, and gaze
- Irony
- Verbal irony — the foundational mode, formalized by Quintilian from earlier Greek rhetorical practice
This sourceQuintilian's treatment of irony as both trope and figure, illustrated by Socrates, the ironist of the earlier Greek tradition.
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- Verbal irony — the foundational mode, formalized by Quintilian from earlier Greek rhetorical practice
Mechanisms¶
- Sequence and Placement Map
- It is essential wherever arrangement is doing the work.
This sourceTreats arrangement of material—dispositio—as an essential part of constructing an effective speech.
- It is essential wherever arrangement is doing the work.
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