西方古典修辞学和西方新修辞学

Present-day Western rhetoric in historical perspective

年来本刊登过不少关于文体论的文章。理论性的以引进居多,例证性的以赏析居多。此文从古希腊以迄近时,解析西方修辞学传统以及近代文体分析和语体分析,提出了西方新修辞学的研究内容和研究方法,似可补一空白。

Present-day Western rhetoric falls into two branches: one under the rubric of 'rhetoric', and the other'stylistics'. These two are argued to be representing two major traditions running through the history of Western rhetoric, the humanistic tradition and the stylistic tradition.Various 'new rhetorics' and stylistic studies are shown to be the results of the interactions of the classical and the modern views, operating over linguistics, communication, literary criticism and composition.Teleological thinking is demonstrated to be the unifying force which helps preserve the integrity of rhetoric studies both in ancient times and in the modern world.