OBAMA, O NOVO CICERÓN

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(PICA AQUÍ)

“One of my favourites among Obama’s tricks was his use of the phrase “a young preacher from Georgia”, when accepting the Democratic nomination this August; he did not name Martin Luther King. The term for the technique is “antonomasia”(1). One example from Cicero is the way he refers to Phoenix, Achilles’ mentor in the Iliad, as “senior magister” – “the aged teacher”. In both cases, it sets up an intimacy between speaker and audience, the flattering idea that we all know what we are talking about without need for further exposition. It humanises the character – King was just an ordinary young man, once. Referring to Georgia by name localises the reference – Obama likes to use the specifics to American place to ground the winged sweep of his rhetoric – just as in his November 4 speech: “Our campaign … began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston”, which, of course, is also another tricolon” (2).

(1) Antonomasia:Ret. Sinécdoque que consiste en poñer o nome apelativo polo propio, ou o propio polo apelativo; p. ej., o Apóstolo, por Santiago; un Nerón, por un home cruel.

(2) Tricolon:Uso de series de tres membros para destacar as teses do seu discurso.

En relación coa capacidade retórica e as semellanzas co estilo ciceroniano non deixedes de ler RETÓRICA E POLÍTICA en APROXIMACIONES

“Muchas personas conocen el interés que siempre ha despertado el hecho político y su relación con la retórica en su vertiente de argumentación para convencer de los propios puntos de vista a una audencia. Cuando las dos disciplinas se unen dan lugar al discurso público”.

RETÓRICA E ORATORIA: CICERÓN 

Este é o tema que vos propoño para enteder a cuestión da ORATORIA ROMANA e o papel decisivo de Cicerón como culminación deste xénero literrio.