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O. I. Marchenko
O. I. Marchenko
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University

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Professionally oriented rhetoric: theory – practice – methodology of teaching (round table materials)
  • Date submitted
    2010-11-01
  • Date accepted
    2011-01-18
  • Date published
    2011-05-01

Artistic and rhetoric: unity of creative laws

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Both a speech maker and an actor use their voice and body as an instrument of their own. As any other professional a speech maker has to master managing this tool, which would help to meet his creative goals. An artistic technique develops an imaginative nature of man. In this respect the language of art implies an ability. Knowledge and ability are taught through Stanislavskiy’s artistic method .

How to cite: Marchenko O.I. Artistic and rhetoric: unity of creative laws // Journal of Mining Institute. 2011. Vol. 193. p. 300.
Rhetorical classics and the contemporary status of rhetoric
  • Date submitted
    2004-06-29
  • Date accepted
    2004-07-23
  • Date published
    2005-01-01

Rhetoric: the past in the present

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This article reflects both diachronic and synchronic aspects of rhetoric comprehension. Rhetorical culture as a whole, as it is known, fulfills the functions of production, fixation, storage and transmission of spiritual experience. The process of speech relations becomes human only when it is mediated by ideal products of culture: norms, values, ideals. Values and norms of rhetoric accumulate the highest incentives of human behavior, have an inducing, effective force, are one of the stable universal bases of culture. Speech is not only a means of transmitting knowledge or truths, but, first of all, a way of establishing mutual understanding, which is the focus of the person acting with words. The basis of any historical type of culture is the type of personality corresponding to it. An unfree, dissociated, passive, limited person is dangerous for culture; he can be opposed to the rhetorical type of personality, through the word realizing one of the most important human needs - the need to communicate with other people. Rhetoric helps the process of consistent formation, self-knowledge, self-exaltation of personality.

How to cite: Marchenko O.I. Rhetoric: the past in the present // Journal of Mining Institute. 2005. Vol. № 1 160. p. 47-49.