Rhetoric & Linguistics

Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and the foundational texts of Western rhetorical tradition.

Burke, Perelman, and contemporary rhetorical theory from the 20th century onward.

Structural, generative, and cognitive linguistics — from Saussure to Chomsky and beyond.

Critical and descriptive approaches to language in social and institutional contexts.

Speech acts, implicature, context, and the use of language in communication.

The study of style in literary and non-literary texts — foregrounding, register, and voice.

Formal and informal logic, fallacies, dialectics, and the structure of reasoned argument.

Signs, symbols, and meaning — Peirce, Barthes, and the science of signification.