The term 'rhetoricized' has been used in various ways over the last couple of decades, and frankly, none of these uses appears to have much in common. I therefore am eager to see whether the field has some consensus regarding a definition.
Lasha, I'm not sure I follow. Let's consider a linguistic entailment: "If John falls into the water, he will get wet." Given that an entailment is always true and thus certain, how could this statement be made "debatable"?
Well, I must disagree. A duck in the water is a wet duck. The feet are wet, the legs are wet, and if you pick one up out of the water you find that the feathers are wet. (I know this because my mother once had a pet duck.) Feathers succeed only in keeping the flesh under the feathers dry. Moreover, I'm not interested in fantasies but reality. Your hypothetical is like someone arguing against the reality of gravity--great for science fiction movies but of little use in the world we live in. Thus, I'm still curious to know how various people define "rhetoricized." I was reading a dissertation recently in which the student defined "rhetoricized" as the act of fusing rhetoric and literature so as to understand literature as the "conceptual metaphorization of the experience of lived human life." I'm troubled by the inherent limitations of that view.
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"Retoricized" would be, for me, a heightened emphasis on certain words, particularly as they are emphasized predominantly by sound and/or rhythm and/or rhyme, these being the most imperceptible to listener "alarms." Secondarily, and more likely to sound these alarms in a listener (or reader), are tropes--metaphor and metonymy, maybe catachresis as well, but I haven't thought much about these (and have no time to do so presently). To set an example, and question, from poetry.
Could a rhetoricized word come from a line which dumps all of his energy onto that final word -this sense of sound guiding emphasis through rhythm and echoed in rhyme? For me it has a rhetorical effect. The only off-hand example I can provide currently is the following, by Portuguese poet António Gedeão.
"Máquina do mundo"
O Universo é feito essencialmente de coisa nenhuma.
Intervalos, distâncias, buracos, porosidade etérea.
Espaço vazio, em suma.
O resto é matéria.
Daí, que este arrepio,
este chamá-lo e tê-lo, erguê-lo e defrontá-lo,
esta fresta de nada aberta no vazio,
deve ser um intervalo. (Gedeão 63)
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