Abstract Classical rhetoricians dating back to Aristotle sought to define the principles of natural order that determine priority in sequences, especially in linguistic representations. Among the principles with the widest predictive power for the ancients and their modern heirs are those stating that A can be prior to B “with respect to temporal order”, that A can be prior to B with respect to what is “known or less informative” than what comes later, and that A can be prior to B with respect to what is “better” or “more worthy”. But when and how do these ordering principles influence the form of linguistic sequences, and how are conflicts between the principles resolved? What determines the priority between the principles of priority? What makes “natural order” natural? Drawing on over two millennia of scholarship, we explore the pragmatic motivation for the primary ordering principles, and in particular for those affecting the order of logically symmetric but rhetorically asymmetric conjunctions.

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第一件事：“自然秩序”的语用

摘要可以追溯到亚里士多德的古典修辞学家试图定义自然顺序的原则，该原则决定顺序中的优先级，尤其是在语言表示形式中。在对古代人及其现代继承人具有最广泛的预测能力的原则中，有一些原则指出，“就时间顺序而言”，A可以在B之前，而在“已知或较少信息的方面”，A可以在B之前。 ”，则A可以在B之前，在“更好”或“更有价值”的东西之前。但是这些排序原则何时，如何影响语言序列的形式，以及这些原则之间的冲突如何解决？在优先原则之间，什么决定优先？是什么使“自然秩序”变得自然？依靠超过两千年的奖学金，