{"id":14549,"date":"2025-06-28T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2025-10-17T07:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:46:42","slug":"atc-reversal-discourse-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/atc-reversal-discourse-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC – Reversal of Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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ATC\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n

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How Discourse Orientations are reversed<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Falling out of disfavor<\/span><\/h2>\n

(T1) In by-gone days, Mi Tz\u016d-hsia was in favour with the Ruler of Wei.<\/strong> According to the Law of the Wei State, \u00ab\u00a0whoever in secret rides in the Ruler’s coach shall have his feet cut off.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb Once Mi Tz\u016d-hsia’s mother fell ill. Somebody, hearing about this, sent a message to Mi Tz\u016d late at night. Thereupon Mi Tz\u016d on the pretence of the Ruler’s order rode in the Ruler’s coach. At the news of this, the Ruler regarded his act as worthy, saying: \u00ab\u00a0How dutiful he is!<\/strong> <\/span>For his mother’s sake he even forgot that he was committing a crime making him liable to lose his feet.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb Another day, when taking a stroll with the Ruler in an orchard, he ate a peach. It being so sweet, he did not finish it, but gave the Ruler the remaining half to eat. So, the Ruler said: \u00ab\u00a0You love me so much indeed,<\/strong> <\/span>that you would even forget your own saliva taste and let me eat the rest of the peach.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

When the colour of Mi Tz\u016d faded, the Ruler’s love for him slackened. Once he happened to offend the Ruler, the Ruler said: \u00ab\u00a0This fellow once rode in my coach under pretence of my order and another time gave me a half-eaten peach.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> The deeds of Mi Tz\u016d had themselves never changed. Yet he was at first regarded as worthy and later found guilty because his master’s love turned into hate.<\/p>\n

Han Fei TseLiao <\/sub>Ch. XII Difficulties in the Way of Persuasion<\/p>\n

The Mechanics of disfavor<\/h3>\n

Parallelism<\/p>\n

brilliant colors > love > language of love > brillant life
\nfaded colors > disgrace > language of hate > death<\/p>\n

Western Rhetoric: Paradiastole, in Orientation Reversal<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

As we know, all lovers boast of their choice. The chatterer<\/em> [is] good-humored,<\/em> and the silent<\/em> one maintains her virtuous modesty (<\/em>Moli\u00e8re, [The Misanthrope<\/em>], 1666[2])<\/a><\/p>\n

(What is presented as) the true strongly negative description of a person as a chatterbox <\/em>or a stupid person<\/em> contrasts with how she appears to her lover, good-humored <\/em>or maintaining her virtuously modest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The language of the lover and that of the ex-lover
\nThe mechanism of Mi Tz\u016d’s disfavor:<\/strong> \u201cWhen the color of Mi Tz\u016d faded, the Ruler’s love for him slackened.\u201d And he spoke a completely different language, putting the ex-favorite at risk.<\/p>\n

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ATC\u00a0 How Discourse Orientations are reversed Falling out of disfavor (T1) In by-gone days, Mi Tz\u016d-hsia was in favour with the Ruler of Wei. According to the Law of the Wei State, \u00ab\u00a0whoever in secret rides in the Ruler’s coach shall have his feet cut off.\u00a0\u00bb Once Mi Tz\u016d-hsia’s mother fell ill. Somebody, hearing about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15069,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions\/15069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}