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Download full textBrown, Stuart C. – 1990
In much current literary and rhetorical theory, analysis of text assumes greater authority than the text and its creator. Through a reexamination of the ancient Greeks' notion of "ethos" (the residue of the writer or speaker in the text), the writer, reader, and text can be reunited, particularly in light of the theory of meanings…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Hermeneutics, Language Role, Mediation Theory
