修辞学归属与定义问题的再讨论

日渐繁荣的成果与逐步泛化的边界是目前修辞学研究的主要矛盾。认清修辞学是语言学重要分支的地位后再与其他学科结合,将是解决矛盾的根本途径。现代心理学、神经语言学破解了语言发生的密码,从而科学、逻辑地证明了“选择”是修辞行为的实质,是修辞学定义的核心。     

论古典修辞学与尼采早期的修辞观

古典修辞学中充满着大量现代性的因素。尼采早期的文章中为修辞学正名,要确立一种"修辞认识论"。他认为一切语言皆为修辞,一切对世界的理解和认识也都是修辞;修辞并不展现世界的"真相",这并不是因为修辞没有真理追求,而是由于真理的修辞本性使我们只能拥有"完全拟人化的真理"。这样的修辞不是"用",乃是"体";不只是语言运用的"技术",更是一门高深的"艺术"。     

缺乏深度是当代修辞研究的主要症结--兼论修辞研究数量化、形式化问题

中国修辞学自 2 0世纪 80年代初起得到前所未有的大发展 ,但在后期 ,“低谷”也随之出现。“低谷”来自修辞学自身的不完善和未能满足当代社会对修辞学的迫切需要。为适应当代社会的迅速发展 ,修辞学要科学化 (主要指修辞研究数量化、形式化 )的呼声越来越高 ,但由于不少修辞学者对此缺乏深入研究 (尤其是理论研究 )和有效实践 ,因而举步维艰。缺乏深度 ,是修辞研究的主要症结。修辞学只有研究深化 ,才能走上继续发展之路     

Remembering “A Great Fag”: Visualizing Public Memory and the Construction of Queer Space

This essay examines how public memory is visualized in the statue to Canada's “gay pioneer,” Alexander Wood. By analyzing three viewing positions of the statue—the official democratic memory, traditionalist countermemory, and camp countermemory—I argue each position enacts a distinct form of remembering Wood with implications for both materializing queer memories and how space and identity are understood in the city. Based upon these visualizations, I extend arguments for how rhetoricians critique memory texts and contribute to defining “queer public memory” in light of this statue.     

Reshaping the “Pillow Angel”: Plastic Bodies and the Rhetoric of Normal Surgical Solutions

This essay uses the controversial “Ashley Treatment” to argue that normative body rhetorics have become untethered from and more influential than traditional medical perspectives in determinations about surgical intervention. While disagreeing greatly over the ethics of the “Treatment,” both its supporters and critics construct rhetorics of a “healthy” body against which pre- and post-Treatment bodies can be evaluated. These rhetorics demonstrate how “health” and “illness” can be defined more through social ideology than medical certainty, resulting in fluid notions of what it means to have a “normal” body and how surgical techniques should be employed to achieve normality.     

二十世纪汉语辞格研究

修辞格是修辞学的核心.二十世纪的汉语修辞学在修辞格研究方面是很有成绩的,但是也留下了不少问题.新世纪的辞格研究应当在清理二十世纪辞格遗产的基础上前进.辞格学可以有三种:修辞辞格学、文化辞格学和哲学辞格学.     

Power Lines: The Rhetoric of Maps as Social Change in the Post–Cold War Landscape

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in Eastern and Central Europe, cartographers were faced with choices on how the new post–Cold War political landscape would be mapped. One such group called the Pluto Project had been producing atlases since 1981 with a progressive point of view about the nature of state power in the Cold War. This essay examines two of the Pluto Project's atlases as they function to identify a radical cartographic style that animates the social control of space by subverting traditional cartographic forms and defying scientific expectations and standards.     

修辞·修辞学·接受修辞学

修辞是指编码,随意改变其含义将会产生多米诺骨牌效应,导致修辞学丧失自身特征。修辞学以揭示编码规律为己任,但不等于无需研究解码,研究任务和研究范围是两码事,后者覆盖面总是大于前者覆盖面。接受修辞学概念可以成立,但是作为修辞学的下位学科,应当把落脚点放在编码上。     

评说所谓“修辞学革命”论

邵敬敏教授提出进行一场修辞学革命,这个口号是值得研究的.这个修辞学革命的口号建立在对近几十年来的中国修辞学的全盘否定的基础之上,这是不符合事实的.这个修辞学革命论也不利于中国修辞学的发展.