The Concept of "Will": its Place and Function in Exquisite Processes

Will is an inner attitude that motivates one to do something. The meaning of this concept in linguistic knowledge is the fulfillment of the prolocutor will when delivering the speech. It means that the prolocutor deliver his speech consciously and is not in states such as sleep, drunkenness, madness, etc. The appearance of some rhetorical thinkers imply the involuntary exquisite techniques. The present study seeks to explain the place and function of the concept of will in exquisite processes by applying a pragmatic approach and to reveal its necessity and importance in exquisite processes. It is hoped that, in this way, a clear answer can also be given in refuting the assumption of involuntary exquisite techniques and by separating and analyzing exquisite techniques based on the concept of will, a more complete and clearer picture of the process of creation of these techniques can be provided from the emergence of the prolocutor to the stage of receiving and reading by the audience. The results of a sample survey of 6 exquisite techniques (shape, eulogy similar to blaming, blaming similar to eulogy, Uslub al-Hakim, justification, verbalism, and exaggeration) indicate that disregarding the will of the prolocutor in these techniques, their value and nature are based on questioning the person and facing serious problems in their application. It is also suspected that the"exquisite techniques" which are understood by some rhetorical thinkers have been rejected, and that "intent" has been used, not in the sense of "will", but in the concept of "pretension".