八股文修辞略说

A Brief Introduction to the Rhetoric in Eight-part Essay

八股文是明清时期用于科举考试的一种文体。其用语平易,条理清楚,着意于解释题意,同时也重视句式、语音、句子结构等方面的安排,这既符合消极修辞的要求,也体现出积极修辞的部分特点。目前,学界对八股文的评价褒贬不一,从修辞角度对其进行研究,可为客观认识八股文提供一个新的视角。

The eight- part essay, with its language extremely plain and the logic very clear, is a literal form in the imperial civil examination during Ming - Qing dynasty. It is mainly concerned with the explanation of topics and the organization of sentence patterns, phonetics and sentence structure, which meets the demands of negative rhetoric and represents some characters of active rhetoric. Currently, there exist a lot of evaluations towards eight - part essay, positive or not among scholars. From the view of rhetoric, this paper aims to ohjectively provide a new perspective towards it.