Retorikai gondolkodás és szövegértő olvasás II.

Abstract

The first part of this study was published in the previous issue of the journal. In this second part,
the author gives a detailed description of the notions argumentation and sources of argument
by introducing the approaches by various authors in different periods of history. She also
discusses the development and the use of rhetoric terms in Hungarian. Then she introduces
the characteristics of rhetoric argumentation and its features differing from the argumentation
in formal logic. In the rest of the paper, she discusses the logic of enthymeme and the various
sources of argument. Following the classification by ancient authors, she lists and analyzes the
general sources of argument, i.e., topos. In particular, she discusses the sources of argument by
Aristotle and Quintilian, and compares the theses of the two rhetoricians. She explains the views
and classifications of Hungarian rhetoricians as well. Finally, the author mentions the sources of
argument in Corbett and Connors’s rhetoric which is mainly based on the relations between logic
and reality.