The Language of History in the Renaissance —— Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism

----- 文艺复兴时期的历史语言：佛罗伦萨人文主义的修辞与历史意识

ISBN: 9780691620954 出版年：2015 页码：222 Struever, Nancy S Princeton University Press

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge and thus to the definition of historical reality, while linguistic competence gives insights into the relation of ideas and action. Within the framework of these ideas, and drawing on recent work in linguistic theory, including that of the french structuralists. Professor struever studies the major shift in attitudes toward language and history which the renaissance represents. One of the essential innovations of renaissance humanism is the substitution of rhetoric for dialectic as the dominant language discipline; rhetoric gives the humanists their cohesion as a lay intellectual elite, as well as the force and direction of their thought.