英语修辞01章遣词.pptVIP

Schedule of English Rhetoric: Class hours: 16 1st week: 第一讲 遣词 2nd week: 第二讲 句级修辞手段 (I) 3rd week: 第二讲 句级修辞手段 (II) 4th week: 第二讲 句级修辞手段 (III) 5th week: 第三讲 修辞格 (I) 6th week: 第三讲 修辞格 (II) 7th week: 第三讲 修辞格 (III) 8th week: 第三讲 修辞格 (IV) W: No. This is some terrible news. Isn’t it? H: No. It’s true. I --- I’m sorry. W: Who? H: Nobody. Nobody special. W: Who, Robert? H: Her --- her name was Nicole Guirin. She was a doctor. W: And how long did it last? H: Two, three days. W: Two days or three days? I want to know. --- from Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal * * * * * * * English Rhetoric and Stylistics Instructed by Lian Jie Tel:Mobile:E-mail: lianjie@ * Course Introduction Total class hours: 36 Total credit points: 2 Schedule of the whole course: Part One English Rhetoric Part Two English Stylistics Assessment: classroom work and sit-in examination, the former taking up 30% of the total score and the latter 70% * English Rhetoric Session 1 Diction 0. Introduction (1) Definition the art of speaking or writing effectively which focuses on the study of language techniques or devices for drawing the reader/listener’s attention and impressing or convincing him (2) Two aspects of rhetoric --- Communicative/Active rhetoric --- Aesthetic/ Passive rhetoric * In the case of content, communicative rhetoric stresses the choice of words and sentence structures, clarity and fluency; in the case of form, it stresses balance and rigorousness. Aesthetic rhetoric stresses appealing to emotion, imagination, association and the use of figures of speech so as to achieve artistic effect by making language more active, beautiful, powerful and convincing. * (3) Rhetoric and some other sciences --- Semantics: rhetoric often goes hand in hand with diction, while diction can’t