‘¿Qué conviene más exenplificar?’ L’argument d’autorité, la preuve par la vérité ou le savoir dans le Triunfo de las donas et la Cadira de honor de Juan Rodríguez del Padrón

Abstract

In this article, we clarify how the arguments of the Triunfo de las donas and the Cadira de honor of Juan Rodríguez del Padrón work and how the author uses the arguments of authority. To do this, we use the tools of discourse analysis, in particular reported discourse, the opposition between polyphonic authority and rational authority theorized by Oswald Ducrot, or the opposition between sententious, sapiential, or even edifying discourse. At the end of this study, it appears that a redesign of the punctuation should be considered for these texts and that the author personally invests himself in the argumentation of the Cadira de honor, while that of the Triunfo de las donas demonstrates a less pronounced authoritative commitment from an enunciative point of view.

Keywords

• Juan Rodríguez del Padrón
• Triunfo de las donas
• Cadira de honor
• argument of authority
• sententious discourse
• sapiential discourse