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English Rhetoric 通过网易 :通行证登录 用户名:xcxcd2008 密码student The lay sense of rhetoric it enjoys several meanings which Hudson reviewed fourty years ago: bombast; high-sounding words without content; oratorical falsification to hide meanings; sophistry; For example: In the first three months of 1997, the word “rhetoric” was used 129 times in The Independent, a British newspaper. The word was constantly collocated with negative words: “ empty”, “aggressive”, “ acrimonious” 严历的 . the rhetoric far Outstrips the reality. In one of his early speeches, President Elsenhower declared that we want action from the Russian, not rhetoric, as evidence for peaceful settlement. Similarly, a search in the British National Corpus on adjeclive + rhetoric showed that the word was used overwhelmingly in a negative way. The academic use of the word rhetoric The academic use of the word rhetoric differs from the lay use in that it is value — neutral, or even positive. Originally, art of speech. Middle English rethorik, from Anglo-French rethorique, from Latin rhetorica, from Greek rhētorikē, literally, art of oratory. rhetoric means speaking in such European language as Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian? From the history of rhetoric, the exact nature of rhetoric and its place in the curriculum has changed many times since its birth in Greece in the fifth century BC- Barilli 1989 speaks of two millennia of vicissitudes . Rhetoric originated in speaking- Aristotle, in ihe 4th century BC, first defined rhetoric as the art of persuasion equivalent to argumentation as people undenstand today, particularly its early association with forensic oratory ——— that is, pleading in court. The aim is to present the case in the best possible light, without due regard for the truth. John Locke, English philosopher of the late 17th century, described rhetoric as the science of oratory” or the art of speaking with propriety, elegance,and force.. With the development of the modern printing i