修辞学视域下的体裁观

A Rhetorical Perspective on Genre

根据当今西方修辞学主流修辞观——修辞是用符号诱发合作的行为——对体裁的形成进行了历时和共时的描写,认为体裁是历史上修辞者与听众成功互动的所进化的结果,在某一特定时刻修辞者和听众既对先前体裁保持一种延续,也根据自己所处特定修辞情景对其进行一定的调整。对体裁分类的多向度性及其几个基本假定进行了探讨,指出了体裁分类的认知学基础。

This paper first makes a diachronic and synchronic description of generic formation in line with the current main- stream view of rhetoric as symbolic inducement of cooperation, pointing out that historically a genre evolves out of rhetor-au- dience successful interaction, and that at a particular point of time the rhetor and the audience both sustain the previous ge- neric form and at the same time adapt it to the particular rhetorical situation. Besides, this paper also examines the muhi- orientation of generic categorization and its several assumptions, and elaborates on the cognitive basis of genre.