摘要：A diachronic perspective on rhetoric,the oldest science of language in European space,entitles us to affirm that the Rhetoric Kingdom will only disappear with the disappearance of language as a defining human faculty.Whether it will suffer restraints or enjoy enlargements of its territory,the Rhetoric Kingdom and,in particular,its capital,the Literary Language Rhetoric,will always remain.
关键词：history of rhetoric;definitions of rhetoric;restricted rhetoric;expanded rhetoric;structuralism;integralism.
