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In a perspective of interactional rhetoric and eristic dialectic within confounded frontiers, this research suggests an examination of a case of constituted dialogue of the characters in La surprise de l'amour by Marivaux. The study aims to examine in what sense the notion of polemic (argument, controversy) which is often manifested in terms of aggression, violence, and passion can be applied to the field of literature as a convincing (relevant, adequate) tool of analysis. In other words if we distance ourselves from the literature of combat and epidictic (criticizing) discourse of blame whose sole aim is to reduce (confine) the other to silence through disqualifying or converting him, how can we use pertinently the notion of polemic in dialogues where normally gallantry, politeness and civility should prevail?
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This article looks at the debates marking the introduction of the new Civil Code of Québec as the site of a struggle to redefine or reaffirm the doxa of Québec's legal community. It is based on a rhetorical analysis of the argumentational strategies developed by the Québec Bar and Chambre des Notaires before the Subcommittee on Institutions during examination of the draft bill on obligations in the fall of 1988, in order to identify the underlying representations and account for the acceptability of the legislative proposals made. The parliamentary debates are used to shed light on the vision of the relationship between private law and economic transactions that underlies the arguments presented by the professional orders.
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