Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Litotes and Computation


Ying Yuan presented "On Argumentative Functions of Litotes" at the Computational Rhetoric workshop.  Litotes is "a figure of speech wherein understatement is used to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect" (Wikipedia).

Ying Yuan is editor/author of Western Rhetoric classic anthology (Chinese Edition), and is co-authoring this work with Randy Harris, which investigates litotes in the Analects.

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