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"Because ancient rhetoricians believed that language was a powerful force for persuasion, they urged their students to develop copia in all parts of their art. Copia can be loosely translated from Latin to mean an abundant and ready supply of language--something appropriate to say or write whenever the occasion arises. Ancient teaching about rhetoric is everywhere infused with the notions of expansiveness, amplification, abundance." (Sharon Crowley and Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Modern Students. Pearson, 2004)
Copia is style of writing that was taught by a Dutch Renaissance Humanist named Desiderius Erasmus. This style of writing is based around the idea that every scholar should be able to have a multitude of ways to explain the same thing over and over again. In order to be a learned, practicing copia styled scholar you must also be able to shrink a sentence down into it's most simplistic form while also keeping it very concise. This is just one very interesting form of rhetoric that appeals to me in a lot of different ways but it seems as though, in regards to your post, you see an error in the way PTSD has kind of lumped together all people suffering from the disorder without actually taking into consideration all the things that make each specific case different. Each of your family members are coping from different forms of trauma but they are all being categorized under the same label. This doesn't seem fair to me and it seems that perhaps the categorized would find more solace and peace in being categorized in the correct and appropriate categories.
"Because ancient rhetoricians believed that language was a powerful force for persuasion, they urged their students to develop copia in all parts of their art. Copia can be loosely translated from Latin to mean an abundant and ready supply of language--something appropriate to say or write whenever the occasion arises. Ancient teaching about rhetoric is everywhere infused with the notions of expansiveness, amplification, abundance."
ReplyDelete(Sharon Crowley and Debra Hawhee, Ancient Rhetorics for Modern Students. Pearson, 2004)
Copia is style of writing that was taught by a Dutch Renaissance Humanist named Desiderius Erasmus. This style of writing is based around the idea that every scholar should be able to have a multitude of ways to explain the same thing over and over again. In order to be a learned, practicing copia styled scholar you must also be able to shrink a sentence down into it's most simplistic form while also keeping it very concise. This is just one very interesting form of rhetoric that appeals to me in a lot of different ways but it seems as though, in regards to your post, you see an error in the way PTSD has kind of lumped together all people suffering from the disorder without actually taking into consideration all the things that make each specific case different. Each of your family members are coping from different forms of trauma but they are all being categorized under the same label. This doesn't seem fair to me and it seems that perhaps the categorized would find more solace and peace in being categorized in the correct and appropriate categories.