布斯的“倾听修辞学”说略

A Brief Study of the Listening Rhetoric by Wayne. C. Booth

布斯在2004年提出了他的"倾听修辞学",对修辞学的发展起到了很大的推动作用。"倾听修辞学"的提出有一定的理论、历史与政治背景,它的核心观点在于倾听以求同。它的理论体系对大学修辞教育和人际交往有重要的启示意义。

Rhetoric, a prevalent phenomenon in various social occasions, is not only an art of Linguistics hut also the life itself. The studies on rhetoric have witnessed a continuous evolving process： In 2004, Booth proposed his theory, of listening rhetoric, promoting the development of rhetoric. Listening rhetoric is raised in a particular theoretical, historical and political background with its core theme-listening to each other to achieve interpersonal agreement. The theoretical framework of listening rhetoric has some implications to rhetorical education and human communication as well.