College Composition and Communication
Dec 1976
Notes toward a Semantic Theory of Rhetoric within a Case Grammar Framework
Abstract
toward study of language as an autonomous system.1 As a consequence, many linguists make solution of problems within grammar prior to study of problems having to do with use of grammar (which are postponed indefinitely) [p. 40]. Hymes particularly takes Chomsky and transformational generative linguists to task for not recognizing the principle of heuristic priority of function over grammar (p. 45). To Hymes, grammar is a subordinate structure. Consequently, Hymes concludes that linguistics must look to disciplines such as rhetoric for heuristic help. In a little-noticed but important article entitled The Grammar of Coher-
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