修辞学:从描写到阐释的学术意义

Rhetoric: the academic significance from description to elucidation

中国修辞学的发展有着悠久的历史 ,中国现代修辞学在西方特别是在日本修辞学的影响下也走过了近百年的历程 ,但因受西方结构主义语言学的影响过重 ,一直都沿袭着“只描写不阐释”的路径行进 ,许多修辞现象不能从学理上得以阐发 ,影响了学科的发展与学科自身的学术价值体系。吴礼权《修辞心理学》一书通过建立起一整套解释修辞学理论体系 ,改变了中国现代修辞学前此的基本局面 ,标志着中国现代修辞学研究转型期的到来。

Influenced by the Western structural linguistics, Chinese linguistics has kept going the way of description without elucidation, which hinders the development of the subject and psychological explanation of rhetorical phenomenon. The book ” Rhetorical Psychology” by Wu Liquan has changed the situation through establishing the theory of elucidative rhetoric. It is believed that the book marks the coming transformation of modern Chinese rhetoric.