西方修辞学理论在我国法庭辩论中的应用.docVIP

The Application of Western Rhetoric Theories in Chinese Court Argumentation Abstract: Rhetoric has a long history and has great influence on the development and improvement of law. Legal activities are the reflection of people’s social life; legal language reflects people’s mutual relations in social life, and in terms of the attainment and improvement of these relations, language is needed to make adjustment; furthermore, rhetoric plays a great role in bettering this adjustment. The action of applying rhetoric into legal system results in the come-into-being of forensic rhetoric. Forensic rhetoric aims to uncover the characteristics and functions of rhetoric in legal language and legal life, to seek a series of operational methods to effect positive influence of rhetoric on people’s legal life, and to promote legal language to serve communication in legal life more efficiently. However, the study of forensic rhetoric has not been implemented in a real sense, and the existing application and study of rhetoric in legal activities is the further extension of rhetoric, and regards the effective use of rhetorical devices as the main goal. Besides, the study of forensic rhetoric so far has mainly focused on court argumentation and the make of legal documents. This article concentrates on the application of western rhetorical theories and rhetorical devices in Chinese court argumentation based on the introduction of the origin and evolution of rhetoric, and major rhetorical theories in the hope that this can enhance the defending ability of lawyers in the court room in our country. Key Words: forensic rhetoric; rhetorical device; court argumentation 西方修辞学理论在我国法庭辩论中的应用 摘要：修辞学有着悠久的历史，对法学学科的发展完善有着深远的影响。法律活动本身是人们社会生活的集中反映，法律语言体现着人们在这样的活动中的相互关系，而这种相互关系的维持和改善受到语言的调节，修辞则起到优化这种调节的极大作用。将修辞学理论运用到法律体系中的研究使得法律修辞学得以产生。法律修辞学的目的就是揭示修辞在法律语言，进而在法律生活中所表现的特点和作用，寻求修辞对人们法律生活产生积极影响的一系列运用方法，促使法律语言更有效地为人们在法律生活中的交际服务。目前，真正意义上的法律修辞学研究尚未展开。法律活动中的已有的有关修辞的运用和研究大多是修辞学的延续，主要以修辞手法的有效运用作为追求目标。此外，法律修辞的研