By Deborah Cameron
Operating with Spoken Discourse offers a entire account of the increasing multidisciplinary box of discourse research. Combining conception and perform it covers a variety of fabric in a full of life and available kind. It discusses present techniques, options and debates within the box of spoken discourse and gives a grounding within the useful strategies of discourse research and the way to use them to actual info.
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15 Brzoska 1883. See the searching examination of the argument in Hartmann 1891: 14–21 and now in Smith 1995:67–9. 16 Brzoska 1883:6–7, 46 (the canon and imitative Atticism), 32 (the beginning of Atticism), 55 (the date of the ‘canon’: it was selected ‘imitationis gratia c. 125’ BCE). 17 See especially the great study of Wilamowitz-Moellendorff 1900a. 18 In what follows I have restricted myself to the lists of prose authors, for they give a clearer indication of their compilers’ interests than do the poetic lists.
56ff. he discusses the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric and runs briefly through the history of the former, going down as far as Carneades (214/3–129/8 BCE). This philosopher was influential on Cicero, and his style is spoken of with admiration here and elsewhere (6835). But by the time we get to Brutus 120 the situation is different. Cicero agrees with the judgement of the Atticist Brutus—a supporter of the ‘old Academy’ according to the manuscripts—who follows the philosophers who expound their ideas with suavitas dicendi et copia (‘sweetness and richness of language’).
What we have then is another antithesis being implied: bad people versus you, the iudices (bad people being defined as anyone inimical to Milo). That is, two of these three points—[1] Milo, [2] you the iudices, [3] the Clodiani—are paired off with reference to the third, in two different ways: • (conjunctive) Milo ignored the Clodiani; hence you should do so as well • (disjunctive) The Clodiani [bad] were opposed to Milo; hence you [good] should favour Milo In section 4 we come to a typical turn in Cicero’s train of thought —a pattern evinced repeatedly in his oratory: Quam ob rem adeste animis, iudices, et timorem, si quem habetis, deponite.