Rhetorical figures of speech provide important analytical frames to chart how arguments operate within genres and within genre ecologies. Varieties of the figure prolepsis allow for the rendering of future time or fact in the present, which can be a powerful rhetorical inducement toward social and political action. In this article, we examine how anticipatory arguments drawn from complex data shape a key genre for public and policy-facing work on the climate crisis—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Synthesis Report’s (SYR) Statement for Policy Makers (SPM). We examine how the rhetorical figure of prolepsis operates within this genre to understand the anticipatory arguments and logics emerging from the synthesis of scientific findings and their reporting. Pairing figural studies and Rhetorical Genre Studies, we further offer an approach to investigate how these patterned operations of language might intersect in their rhetorical workings.

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政府间气候变化专门委员会报告中的预测和渲染未来

修辞修辞格提供了重要的分析框架来描绘论点如何在流派和流派生态中运作。各种人物预喻可以呈现未来的时间或现在的事实，这可以成为社会和政治行动的强大修辞诱因。在本文中，我们研究了从复杂数据中得出的预期论点如何塑造气候危机公共和政策导向工作的关键类型——政府间气候变化专门委员会的综合报告（SYR）政策制定者声明（SPM）。我们研究了预测的修辞形象如何在这一类型中运作，以理解从科学发现及其报告的综合中出现的预期论点和逻辑。将形象研究和修辞类型研究结合起来，我们进一步提供了一种方法来研究这些模式化的语言操作如何在其修辞运作中交叉。