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I didn’t watch the video, but I won’t insult you by telling you the term you’re looking for is probably liitotes, Dave.
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<div class="">On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:16 AM, Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net" class="">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I've spent the last three years thinking about what to do with this idea of mine about a new rhetorical term, 'hypothetitio', and getting nowhere. I tried to put it on LinguistList but they thought it was a little too politically lively. I tried
to put it on LanguageLog but didn't hear back. Now I'm about to start lining up a new undergrad module on rhetoric, so it needs to go somewhere for me to reference it! I've put it up on my
<a href="http://academia.edu" class="">academia.edu</a> page here: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/17461820/" class="">
https://www.academia.edu/17461820/</a>. Feel free to use and redistribute anywhere and everywhere as you see fit.<br class="">
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Hypothetically yours,<br class="">
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Dr. Dave Sayers<br class="">
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | <a href="http://www.shu.ac.uk" class="">
www.shu.ac.uk</a><br class="">
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | <a href="http://www.wiserd.ac.uk" class="">
www.wiserd.ac.uk</a><br class="">
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On 18/09/2012 12:42, Dave Sayers wrote:<br class="">
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Please click here (it's nothing naughty)...<br class="">
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7macVIxeM#t=2m40s" class="">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh7macVIxeM#t=2m40s</a><br class="">
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If that doesn't take you to 2 minutes 40 seconds in, then just scroll along to that point. David<br class="">
Starkey here uses a cunning little rhetorical device to say what he think of Islam, but also not<br class="">
quite actually technically really explicitly say it.<br class="">
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I'm hoping to use this in a lecture about rhetorical devices. But my question is, what is the name<br class="">
of that rhetorical device? The closest I can find so far is either occultatio or paralipsis --<br class="">
variations on the theme of describing something by not describing it, e.g. a politician saying "let<br class="">
us say nothing of my opponent's unfortunate incident in a public toilet with a parrot and a jar of<br class="">
mustard". Starkey is somewhere wide of that. He's not saying 'I won't say anything of my opinion<br class="">
that Islam is a vile disgusting religion'. He says 'If I [...] say [clever pause] I think Islam is a<br class="">
vile disgusting religion' etc. That's different, insofar as he's creating a hypothetical dialogue<br class="">
between him and a hypothetical opponent. That stops anyone accusing him of (or arresting him for)<br class="">
talking that way about Islam, which is precisely the power of this particular rhetorical device,<br class="">
whatever it's called.<br class="">
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So, any ideas as to what it's called? Is it some sub-set of occultatio that I haven't come across?<br class="">
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Since I'm on the subject, anyone else planning a class on rhetoric might like the following clip:<br class="">
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv0F3WdzKA<br class="">
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Galloway's opening statement is awash with easily identifiable rhetorical devices, including:<br class="">
anaphora; symploce; enumeratio; inductive reasoning; hypophora; understatement; pathos.<br class="">
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I set my students a homework exercise to find those, plus any others they could pick out, and we had<br class="">
a very interesting discussion about it all -- really spurred their interest in the subject.<br class="">
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Thanks all!<br class="">
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Dave<br class="">
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Dr. Dave Sayers<br class="">
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University<br class="">
and Visiting Lecturer (2012-2013), Dept English, Åbo Akademi University<br class="">
dave.sayers@cantab.net<br class="">
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers<br class="">
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