Discourse analysis: criticism of the rhetoric reason
This text answers the following main interrogation: if we consider the New Rhetoric as paradigmatic field of the Discourse Analysis, then on which principle does it base, which directs it and which justifies its heuristic relevance? We begin at first to show that the New Rhetoric is the paradigm which is suitable to the Discourse Analysis. Then, we evaluate the heuristic relevance of the New Rhetoric by revealing the insufficiency of the principle of widened reason on which it base. That allows proposing another concept of reason which makes possible a really descriptive analysis of the discursive practices.