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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wish to thank Mr.</FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>James Comas and Dr. Ulrich Hermann Waßner for the refereces they provided
to me and for their effort.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was just reading Aristotle's rhetoric so your
link might be helpful.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unfortunately, I don't know German (only English,
French and Romanian) so I will not be able to use the German references. Also,
my paper on "The use of Enthymemes in Advertising" will be written in Romanian
so I don't think it will be of much help to you. More than that, my material for
the analyssis of advertising arguments is written also in
Romanian....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have structured my paper in 6 parts and the
first three are mainly general - the definition of rhetoric, advertising and
argumentation (how they link) - the definition and the history of the term
enthymeme - Stephen Toulmin model and some theory of Douglas Walton as
instruments for/in my analyssis. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I found it rather surprising that there haven't
been written books about enthymemes. Or, there have been written a few, but here
in Romania I cannot find one. So I must be satisfied with passages from
different books or the Internet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was wondering if you know models or instruments
of recognising and of filling in the missing assumptions of an enthymeme. How do
I know I found an enthymeme and what is the rule of finding the assumption that
the orator wanted to use. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wish to ask one more question, I hope you won't
mind. I don't know Greek so I cannot trace the ethymological root of the term
"enthymeme". I found two approaches on this matter. One says that <EM>enthymeme
</EM>comes from the Greek word <EM>enthymema (en - </EM>in - <EM>thymos</EM>
- mind). Another one it says that in Greek it meant "to be remembered in
mind". Which one is correct? Why do you think the verb "remembered"
appeared in the second approach? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>C. Radu</FONT></DIV>
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