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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between the notion of “example” – as it is presented in the French dictionaries, and the manner in which it may be interpreted from the theoretical perspective suggested by Aristotle and Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca, respectively. We will also suggest a possible expression of the “example” in the form of “quotation”, and will support this view with evidence found in our corpus of data represented by the political discourses delivered by C. Vadim Tudor, J.- M. Le Pen and/or J. Haider, approximately in the same period. This perspective would expand the rhetorical interpretation of the “example”, including the “quotational” reading as well.

Keywords

• rhetoric
• argumentation
• example
• quotation