Understanding Indian Rhetoric on Its Own Terms: Using a Vedic Key to Unlock the Vedic Paradigm

Our “terministic screens,” learned attitudes and assumptions that screen what we see, render much data invisible and thus hinder the study of South Asian rhetorics. I hypothesized that by using two terms central to the Vedic worldview—Ṛta and levels of speech theory—as a terministic key, a touchston...

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Main Author: Melfi, Anne
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/160
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=english_diss