10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MACROLOGY»
Discover the use of
macrology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
macrology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and ...
The distinction Socrates draws between quiddity and quality is followed by a
distinction between brachylogy and macrology. The latter distinction is known to
Gorgias, and one of his selling points is that no one can say the same thing as
briefly ...
2
The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism
Socrates' predilection for brachylogy over macrology is not a mere matter of style.
Brachylogy is part of Socrates' dialectical strategy and functions as an
argumentative trump card that enables the philosopher to disclose the limits of
rhetoric as ...
3
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
Thus, Protagoras' style of macrology is not digressive; rather, it is made to seem
an attempt at digression. Too long a speech does not speak of something else; it
neither raises nor treats one or more questions different from the one that was ...
George Boys-Stones, Dimitri El Murr, Christopher Gill,
2013
4
Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary ...
Given the qualitative difference between macrology and micrology, how does
one learn to jump from one to the other? I shall now address these two problems
in that order. The double aspect of Schleiermacher's hermeneutics can be seen
as ...
5
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected ...
The entries for combining forms themselves, such as MACRO— below, give the
supporting analysis, with early borrowings such as MACROLOGY n. being
treated as straightforward loans with consequent morphological remodelling of
final -ia ...
Christian J. Kay, Carole A. Hough, Irené Wotherspoon,
2004
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New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis ...
The entries for combining forms themselves, such as macro- below, give the
supporting analysis, with early borrowings such as macrology n. being treated as
straightforward loans with consequent morphological remodelling of final -ia to -y
...
Christian Kay, Simon Horobin, Carole Hough,
2004
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The New Hacker's Dictionary
In the mainstream and among other technical cultures (for example, medical
people) this competes with the prefix mega-, but hackers tend to restrict the latter
to quantification. macrology /mak-rol'a-jee/ n. l. Set of usually complex or crufty ...
Plato deals with rhetoric, or macrology, particularly in the Gorgias dialogue, but
Protagoras also is useful in understanding his stance on the subject. Plato's
fairness must be recognized since the definition of rhetoric the two Sophists give
is not ...
9
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
There is a good deal of supernatural 'machinery' in Paradise Lost. macrology (Gk
'long language') Verbose repetition by way of long words and phrases. See
jargon; officialese; periphrasis; tautology; verbocrap. macron The horizontal sign
...
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How to Prepare for the Coop Hspt Catholic High School ...
(A) meracious (B) vitipend (C) frambold (D) macrology (E) brockie 16. Which
word means excellent? (F) meracious (G) saulie (H) macrotous (J) eximious (K)
vitipend 17. Which word means a cowardly person? (A) decoration (B) brockie (C
) ...
Max Peters, Jerome Shostak,
1997
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