在Encyclopedia of English中,rhetorical question是这样被界定的:One asks for its probable effect on the audience,not because the speaker does not know the answer。可见,修辞疑问句的作用在于如何有效地使用问句达到一种强烈...在Encyclopedia of English中,rhetorical question是这样被界定的:One asks for its probable effect on the audience,not because the speaker does not know the answer。可见,修辞疑问句的作用在于如何有效地使用问句达到一种强烈的修辞效果。话语的力量,不存在于问句本身之中,而是着重于对陈述意义的描述上,它比一般陈述句所具有的艺术性更强,更能激起情感,更具有启发性和感染力。修辞疑问句的广泛应用表明这一话语的口头及书面形式已成为丰富语言使用理论修辞学的一个重要的内容。它不仅具有明显劝说性和刻意雕琢的话语形式,展开更多
English speech has a very long history and always attached importance of people highly.People usually give a speech in economic activities,political forums and academic reports to express their opinions to investigate...English speech has a very long history and always attached importance of people highly.People usually give a speech in economic activities,political forums and academic reports to express their opinions to investigate or persuade others.English speech plays a rather important role in English literature.The distinct theme of speech should attribute to the rhetoric.It discusses parallelism,repetition and rhetorical question in English speech,aiming to help people appreciate better the charm of them.展开更多
There have been countless studies on the rhetorical question(RQ);however,few are on its argumentative function,and fewer still on its logical functions with regard to“enthymeme/rhetorical syllogism”,the core of Aris...There have been countless studies on the rhetorical question(RQ);however,few are on its argumentative function,and fewer still on its logical functions with regard to“enthymeme/rhetorical syllogism”,the core of Aristotle’s logos(logical appeal).This study,based on the incompleteness and probability features of“enthymeme”,attempts to systematically explore the distinct ways and generating mechanism of the RQ’s argumentative function,via examining the RQ-rich masterpiece,Liu Xie’s Wen Xin Diao Long(WXDL).After enthymematically analyzing RQs in WXDL,we find that the RQ enthymeme achieves strong deductive capability by implying or suggesting an assumption(as the major premise),providing a solid argument(as the minor premise),and suggesting or implying a claim(as the conclusion).Moreover,this inquiry shows that RQ’s logical functions are accompanied by salience of the suggested assumption or assertion inherited from the question itself.This investigation can not only provide reference for broadening RQ research scope and its research method,but also verify and even enrich Aristotle’s notion of enthymeme,thus promoting the exploration and application of core Western rhetorical concepts.展开更多
This paper interrogates the pragmatic choice of the rhetorical question(RQ)as a linguistic resource in some disputational discourse in the verses of the English translated Qur’an.It argues that the choice of this sen...This paper interrogates the pragmatic choice of the rhetorical question(RQ)as a linguistic resource in some disputational discourse in the verses of the English translated Qur’an.It argues that the choice of this sentence-type not only puts the speaker in a position of control in powerful assertion of facts,but also strengthens the pragmatic acts in the context to be more emphatic.Adopting Mey’s(2001)Pragmatic Acts theory and Caponigro and Sprouse’s(2007)Concept of Common Ground,the paper does a close reading of the last forty Quranic chapters for a critical analysis and finds that RQ accounts for 15%(61)of the 410 verses in the seventeen(17)chapters that have RQs out of the last forty chapters investigated.We find that the Authorial Voice in the Qur’an employs the RQ as an argumentative strategy to perform the pragmatic acts of challenging,inviting,affirming,reminding,reinforcing,assuring,appealing,and warning in series of intellectual engagements with the addressees in order to put them in a reflective mode.It is concluded that the RQ is an effective,dialogic,evidence-gathering,change-seeking pragmatic tool for securing improved attitude and ideological understanding from the addressees.Addressees are sought after to be convinced by the Speaker in a dialogue,and then left alone to decide,which presents the Speaker as One that uses rational argument in the context of disputation to persuade humans in real dialogues so as to seek change.展开更多
文摘在Encyclopedia of English中,rhetorical question是这样被界定的:One asks for its probable effect on the audience,not because the speaker does not know the answer。可见,修辞疑问句的作用在于如何有效地使用问句达到一种强烈的修辞效果。话语的力量,不存在于问句本身之中,而是着重于对陈述意义的描述上,它比一般陈述句所具有的艺术性更强,更能激起情感,更具有启发性和感染力。修辞疑问句的广泛应用表明这一话语的口头及书面形式已成为丰富语言使用理论修辞学的一个重要的内容。它不仅具有明显劝说性和刻意雕琢的话语形式,
文摘English speech has a very long history and always attached importance of people highly.People usually give a speech in economic activities,political forums and academic reports to express their opinions to investigate or persuade others.English speech plays a rather important role in English literature.The distinct theme of speech should attribute to the rhetoric.It discusses parallelism,repetition and rhetorical question in English speech,aiming to help people appreciate better the charm of them.
基金We thank most gratefully Prof.Jun Wang,Prof.Tiaoyuan Mao and Prof.Chengru Dong and the anonymous reviewers,for all their precious suggestions.Furthermore,this research has been generously supported by Chinese National Social Science Fund Project:“On Argumentative Textual Functions of Major Tropes and Schemes”(15BYY178)the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province:“Logical Function of Rhetorical Questions:An Enthymematic Analysis of RQs in Wen Xin Diao Long”(SJKY19_2247).
文摘There have been countless studies on the rhetorical question(RQ);however,few are on its argumentative function,and fewer still on its logical functions with regard to“enthymeme/rhetorical syllogism”,the core of Aristotle’s logos(logical appeal).This study,based on the incompleteness and probability features of“enthymeme”,attempts to systematically explore the distinct ways and generating mechanism of the RQ’s argumentative function,via examining the RQ-rich masterpiece,Liu Xie’s Wen Xin Diao Long(WXDL).After enthymematically analyzing RQs in WXDL,we find that the RQ enthymeme achieves strong deductive capability by implying or suggesting an assumption(as the major premise),providing a solid argument(as the minor premise),and suggesting or implying a claim(as the conclusion).Moreover,this inquiry shows that RQ’s logical functions are accompanied by salience of the suggested assumption or assertion inherited from the question itself.This investigation can not only provide reference for broadening RQ research scope and its research method,but also verify and even enrich Aristotle’s notion of enthymeme,thus promoting the exploration and application of core Western rhetorical concepts.
文摘This paper interrogates the pragmatic choice of the rhetorical question(RQ)as a linguistic resource in some disputational discourse in the verses of the English translated Qur’an.It argues that the choice of this sentence-type not only puts the speaker in a position of control in powerful assertion of facts,but also strengthens the pragmatic acts in the context to be more emphatic.Adopting Mey’s(2001)Pragmatic Acts theory and Caponigro and Sprouse’s(2007)Concept of Common Ground,the paper does a close reading of the last forty Quranic chapters for a critical analysis and finds that RQ accounts for 15%(61)of the 410 verses in the seventeen(17)chapters that have RQs out of the last forty chapters investigated.We find that the Authorial Voice in the Qur’an employs the RQ as an argumentative strategy to perform the pragmatic acts of challenging,inviting,affirming,reminding,reinforcing,assuring,appealing,and warning in series of intellectual engagements with the addressees in order to put them in a reflective mode.It is concluded that the RQ is an effective,dialogic,evidence-gathering,change-seeking pragmatic tool for securing improved attitude and ideological understanding from the addressees.Addressees are sought after to be convinced by the Speaker in a dialogue,and then left alone to decide,which presents the Speaker as One that uses rational argument in the context of disputation to persuade humans in real dialogues so as to seek change.
