英语修辞学教案.docx

精品文档 English Rhetoric 英语修辞学 I. Connotation of Rhetoric ：rhetoric 的含义 1. Rhetoric may be used as an ordinary（普通用词） word and a technical term（专业术语） . As an ordinary word, rhetoric in a derogatory sense means “skilful argumentation ”（巧辩） and “empty or exaggerated eloquence”（虚夸的话） . e.g. the exaggerated rhetoric of presidential campaigns（总统竞选期间唱 的高调）；the empty rhetoric of the politicians（政客们的花言巧语） ; flowery rhetoric （华丽的辞藻） Rhetoric also means (1) “language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience”（言语，辞令） , e.g. employ stirring rhetoric; soothing rhetoric; glowing rhetoric (2) “artistic language”（艺 术语言） , e.g. the rhetoric of fiction（小说的艺术语言） ; the rhetoric of film( 电影语言 ); body rhetoric(肢体语言 ) 2) As a technical term, rhetoric has several senses. In America, the writing course or the writing textbook is entitled “rhetoric”. Apart from the above senses, rhetoric also has the following important senses: Speaking rhetoric（演讲修辞） : the art of speaking Compositional rhetoric（写作修辞） : the art of writing Stylistic rhetoric （风格修辞，文体修辞） : the style of writing 2. Rhetoric may also be subdivided into the following: . 精品文档 1) Lexical rhetoric（词汇修辞） : the rhetorical law of choosing words and phrases 2) Sentence rhetoric（句子修辞） : the rhetorical law selecting sentence patterns 3) Paragraph rhetoric（段落修辞） : the rhetorical law of organizing paragraphs 4) textual rhetoric（语篇修辞） : the rhetorical law of organizing texts II. Definition of Rhetoric 修辞学的定义 What is rhetoric ? 1. Origin of modern rhetoric : 现代修辞学的起源 Rhetoric originated in “speaking”（说话）. Aristotle（亚里士多得） , in the 4th century BC, first defined rhetoric as the art of persuasion , equivalent to argumentation as people understand today. John Locke（约翰 .洛克） , English philosopher of the late 17th century, described rhetoric as “the science of oratory(演说术 )”or “the art of speaking with propriety, elegance and force(修辞学是说话得体、优 美和有力的艺术 )”. All this explains why the word “rhetoric”means “speaking”in such Europ