Private Listening in a Group Context. A Study of the Second Person in some Sermons of Augustine
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2017.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : In his sermons, Augustine often uses the second person singular, though it is difficult to determine if it is for a specific individual. Augustine frequently shifts from the second person plural to the second person singular, and vice versa, without breaking, that is to say, without a change of speaker presented as such. More than a « generic you » or a « diatribic you », it would here seem to be a « second person singular collective » : Augustin speaks to his entire audience as individuals, each addressed personally by the bishop. The rhetorical process studied here has an important theological and spiritual background, because the sermon engages with that which is most intimate within man, i.e. his relationship with God, which no one can know except himself.
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In his sermons, Augustine often uses the second person singular, though it is difficult to determine if it is for a specific individual. Augustine frequently shifts from the second person plural to the second person singular, and vice versa, without breaking, that is to say, without a change of speaker presented as such. More than a « generic you » or a « diatribic you », it would here seem to be a « second person singular collective » : Augustin speaks to his entire audience as individuals, each addressed personally by the bishop. The rhetorical process studied here has an important theological and spiritual background, because the sermon engages with that which is most intimate within man, i.e. his relationship with God, which no one can know except himself.
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