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Revue: Neophilologica

Définir l’argumentation. Entre néo-rhétorique et sciences du langage

Françoise Collinet

Langue: FR | Date de publication: 31-12-2019 | Résumé | p. 90-105

The book Argumentation. Analyser textes et discours (Doury, 2016) comes within the scope of language science. From this angle this work clearly distinguishes itself from The Treatise on Argumentation (Le traité de l’argumentation) published almost 60 years before (Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca, 1958). Prior to the development of pragmatics or discourse analysis, The New Rhetoric focuses on discourse techniques which enable an “orator” (a litigant, a smooth talker, but also a scholar or a philosopher) to influence others. The Treatise’s focus on discourse techniques has naturally aroused the interest of language specialists. But, at the end of the day, The Treatise finds its inspiration less in linguistic issues than in philosophical ones. Our purpose is to compare Doury’s book with the Treatise to measure the impact of this discrepancy. We will argue that beyond
that evident contrast between methodologies and theoretical approaches, the structure of the two books appear, in some way, oddly similar. The structure of Doury’s textbook, particularly clear and explicit, will be used to emphasize another aspect than Perlman’s rehabilitation of rhetoric. This other aspect could be called the study of a logic with a human face.

2019-12-31



Revue: Neophilologica

The Russian Words for Anxiety Revisited

Alexei Shmelev

Langue: EN | Date de publication: 04-12-2025 | Résumé | p. 1-22

This paper deals with the Russian words for worry and anxiety. The analysis focuses on the word families of bespokoitʹ and trevoga. It is based on data from the Russian-English and English-Russian subcorpora of the Russian National Corpus. These data support the hypothesis that the words in the bespokoitʹ family involve a greater degree of intellectual assessment of the situation, whereas the words in the trevoga family point to a more intense and less uniform emotional experience. At the same time, the study helped verify certain details of earlier descriptions that had been obtained without parallel corpora.

The choice of a translation equivalent in each particular case depends not only on semantics but also on the overall translation strategy and the individual preferences of the translator. Nevertheless, certain general patterns can be observed. For example, with the word bespokoitʹsja, as with the English word worry, it is important that the subject is thinking over the situation and considering that it may take a turn for the worse. In the case of trevoga, as with anxiety, a key element is that the subject lacks important knowledge about the situation and therefore does not know what can be done to prevent negative developments. The words vstrevožitʹ and vstrevožitʹsja, like the English word alarmed, are characterized by a sudden realization that something bad might happen and that some action must be taken in response.

2025-12-04