Building from the ground up: Frank Lloyd Wright as an architect of language

• Authors: Edyta Frelik

Title variants

PL

Budowanie od dołu do góry. Frank Lloyd Wright jako architekt języka

Abstracts

PL

Ustne i pisemne wypowiedzi F.L. Wrighta są omówione tak, by podkreślić związek między zasadami jego „organicznej” koncepcji architektury a retoryczną skutecznością języka, jakiego używa. Jego elokwencja i sprawne wykonanie („performance”) przygotowanego zamysłu, wykorzystujące różne strategie komunikacyjne, przedstawione jest jako w pełni spójne i zgodne z jego architektonicznym myśleniem i realizacją jego idei w działaniu. To właśnie sprawia, że jest on prekursorem postmodernistycznej świadomości i praktyki.

EN

F.L. Wright’s written and oral statements are discussed with a view to showing the connection between his principles of “organic” architecture and the rhetorical efficacy of his verbal expression. His calculated, eloquent and dexterous enactment, or performance, of various communication strategies is presented as fully contiguous and consonant with his architectural thinking and substantiation of ideas through action. This makes him an important precursor of postmodern consciousness and praxis.

Keywords

PL

Frank Lloyd Wright; architektura; wypowiedź językowa; strategie komunikacyjne; performance

EN

Frank Lloyd Wright; architecture; verbal expression; communication strategies; performance

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
• Journal: Res Rhetorica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 52-68

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Edyta Frelik

• Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, Instytut Neofilologii, Katedra Anglistyki i Amerykanistyki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.29107/rr2022.1.4

Biblioteka Nauki

2232103