A oratória revisita a academia: pressupostos teóricos e recursos discursivos imbricados na retórica argumentativa

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aims to investigate, from the corpus, the methodologies involved the main obstacles that prevent university students from producing oral texts with resourcefulness and propriety. The research starts from the concepts of oratory and rhetoric, inserting them in a historical clipping – from the Sophists Protagoras and Gorgias, crossing the philosophers Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian –, in order to make explicit the contributions of the precepts defended by them in the setting up of a good speaker. As far as contemporaneity is concerned, I present argumentative theories with their respective contributions to rhetorical studies, in order to arrive to the new rhetoric proposed by Perelman and Tyteca. In addition, I reflect on the place of rhetoric in Brazilian education, especially in law schools, in order to identify authors who have focused the practice of oral discourse in the national context. In the following, I explain the place that oratory occupies in the academy, bringing pedagogical and performable activities of formation, until reaching the future of oratory in university environments: here, it will be seen as the art of making subjects capable of articulating and harmonizing the ethos, the pathos and the logos, to confer effectiveness to the discourse. The results obtained reiterate the need to reinsert disciplines focused on oratory practice in the curriculum, as it will provide excellence subsidies that will enable language mastery and capacity changes, persuade and convince different audiences (sic).