Aristotle’s topoi concerning deliberative oratory focuses on using persuasion to illustrate for a society the advantages or disadvantages of certain topics affecting the societies overall health. Paul J. Hopper's essay “Linguistics,” while focusing minimally on the negative theories affecting linguistics, markedly centers on the advantages theorists and applicationists have brought to the field of linguistics. Hence, this week I will again work on a rhetorical précis using the topoi within the précis…
Paul J. Hopper, in his article “Linguistics” (2005), conveys the major themes and assumptions (20) that have created contemporary linguistics; namely “speech production and comprehension are distinguished from a ‘mentally represented language system,’ and this language system is ‘access[ed]’ when we speak” (20). Hopper supports his overview by offering a comprehensive historical and biographical illustration of the advantageous occurrences, theories, and theorists that have created linguistics current sturdy state. Hopper’s purpose is to give a foundational painting of linguistics for readers needing to familiarize themselves with linguistics. Hopper creates a formal relationship with his audience of graduate students interested in linguistics who “need a research agenda for linguists” (20).
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