La place de la rhétorique argumentative dans la perspective interdisciplinaire de l’analyste du discours : réflexions sur un ouvrage de P. Charaudeau

Abstract

These critical reflections focus on the status that one of the founders of the French trend of Discourse Analysis, Patrick Charaudeau, attributes to argumentative rhetoric in the language sciences. Although it is mentioned in his 2023 book, rhetoric does not feature in the main inventories of the various currents of linguistics. The author also analyzes some of the major strategies employed by the speaking subject, which have always played a fundamental role in argumentative rhetoric and, more specifically, in Perelman’s New Rhetoric, without referring to them. The aim here is not only to problematize these epistemic paradoxes, but also to show how rhetoric could contribute to enriching three of the key notions of this book: the holistic function of the communication contract; the defense of the existence of a partial, but irrefutable autonomy of the speaking subject and its double: the interpreting subject; and the notion of influence.

Keywords

• interdisciplinarity
• autonomy and responsibility
• argumentative rhetoric
• regime of rationality
• speaking subject