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A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry

A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry

Georgios Alexandropoulos
Copyright: © 2015 |Volume: 4 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 27
ISSN: 2155-5028|EISSN: 2155-5036|EISBN13: 9781466679597|DOI: 10.4018/IJSSS.2015010102
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Alexandropoulos, Georgios. "A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry." IJSSS vol.4, no.1 2015: pp.27-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015010102

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Alexandropoulos, G. (2015). A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry. International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS), 4(1), 27-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015010102

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Alexandropoulos, Georgios. "A Corpus-Stylistic Approach of the Treatises of St. Athanasius about Idolatry," International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems (IJSSS) 4, no.1: 27-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJSSS.2015010102

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Abstract

This research focuses on the corpus stylistic analysis of the treatises of Saint Athanasius. In this interdisciplinary study classical texts are approached through linguistic tools and the main purpose is to describe the style of Saint Athanasius in these treatises, after having extracted all these quantitative data utilizing computational tools. The language Saint Athanasius uses is a language that expresses intensely his speculations on the achievement of religious change and restructuration. His language expresses his religious ideology. His speeches are persuasive, ideological and represent the rhetorician's opinion. They are based on the speaker's intentionality; it directs him to the specific rhetorical framework, since he aims at one and unique inspirational result, that is, persuasion.

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