语篇阅读的修辞性分析

On Rhetoricity of Text Reading

语篇阅读是一种社会行为,是读者在语篇情境中对其意义重构的过程,其行为目的是理解语篇内容。从新修辞学的受众观以及知识构建观来看,语篇阅读可以看作是一种意义构建的修辞行为,表征为读者对语篇内容的"修辞再发明"过程,体现了读者对语篇意义主动重构的行为过程。修辞再发明是语篇阅读修辞性之根本所在。语篇阅读的修辞性表明,相对作者的语篇生成过程而言,读者的语篇阅读行为更为重要,对语篇阅读修辞性的理解有助于我们把握阅读行为的本质特征。

Text reading is a social action in which readers reconstruct text meaning in order to understand texts. From the perspective of new rhetoric on audience and knowledge construction, text reading can be regarded as a rhetorical action of meaning reconstruction,representing a process of  re-invention and readers＇ active reconstruction of text meaning. Re-invention is the root of text reading. The rhetoricity of text reading indicates that readers＇ text reading is more important than writers＇ text production. The study of rhetoricity of text reading helps us understand the essential characteristics of reading.