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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2010  
         
  Article:   APPROCHES DE L’IRONIE DANS LA RHÉTORIQUE ANTIQUE ET MODERNE. L’IRONIE, UNE FIGURE DE MOTS OU UNE FIGURE DE PENSÉE ? / PERSPECTIVES ON IRONY IN THE ANTIQUE AND MODERN RHETORIC. IS IRONY A FIGURE OF SPEECH OR A FIGURE OF THOUGHT?.

Authors:  ELENA SIMINICIUC. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The manuals of antique and modern rhetoric treat irony either as a figure of speech (uerborum exornationes) or as a figure of thought (sententiarum exornationes), distinction that will be discussed in this paper. Since the criteria that enable this distinction aren’t easy to encircle and since some of the modern rhetoricians still agree with it, we tried to understand if it is still relevant for the theory of irony. One of the greatest difficulties of our task resides in the translations we had access to, that is why most of the quotations are accompanied by the original text in footnotes. Besides that, some authors used the Latin sources (dissimulation for irony), some others the Greek ones (είρωνεία for irony), which rendered even more difficult the translation.

Keywords: Irony, Figure, Rhetoric, Language, Thought. 		 
         
     
         
         
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