From the History of Teaching the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric - About the "theory of Orality

Abstract

"Theory of Verbality" - this is the name of the textbook that was widespread in Georgia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. We will find many editions of "theory of verbality". The subject of the present study is the book "Theory of Verbality" compiled by Archimandrite Kirioni and Grigol Kipshidze. There has been no scholarly interest in the book so far, so the textbook is effectively unstudied. The main goals and objectives of the research are to analyze the content of the textbook, what subjects were taught in it, to find out the place of the mentioned naming subject among other educational subjects, to reveal a number of changes that occurred in the Georgian educational system at that time, and to show how a new subject was introduced in the form of the theory of verbalization and which subject was preceded by its removal. Ahead of this process, in particular, we will focus on rhetoric as a precursor to the theory of orality.