出走与回归:中国20世纪修辞学的文化启示

Depart from and Return to the Tradition:On the Cultural Significance of Chinese Rhetoric in 20th Century

中国现代修辞学的主流倾向,如果概括地来说,就是求新务变的倾向。除了这种倾向外,或者说在这种倾向的基础上,还有一种回归传统的倾向。中国现代修辞学大体上可以分为两个方面,即保守的方面和开新的方面。一方面是保守传统,或者借用新的方法和眼光回归传统;另一方面是努力出走,剥离中国传统而引进外来思想,以迫使中国修辞学走上一条"科学化"之路。这种划分也不是绝对的,保守的方面旧中有新,开新的方面新中也有旧,往往同时并存,但整个说来,求新的方面要更占主流一些。

Generally speaking, the main trend in modern Chinese rhetoric is committed to the pursuit of innovation and reformation.Besides this, however, there is an alternative tendency to return to the Chinese traditional rhetorical culture.We may roughly divide the modern Chinese rhetoric into two different aspects, namely, a conservative one and an innovative one.Return to the tradition with new methods and perspectives constitutes the conservative approach, while the purpose of the innovative is trying to scientize Chinese rhetoric by separating itself from traditional rhetoric and introducing foreign rhetorical ideas.The difference between these two approaches is not an absolute one.The conservative, while sticking to tradition, embraces new methods and ideas as well, and vice versa.However, the innovative approach remains to be the mainstream o-verall.