Mathematical biography and key rhetoric

The intention of this article is to consider the use of narrative and rhetorical inquiry as research methods. I construct a mathematical biography of one elementary teacher trainee, Sirpa, who had performed well in her advanced mathematics course in upper secondary school. I describe her development as a mathematics teacher during teacher education from her second-year methods course and teaching practice to fourth-year teaching practice. Narrative inquiry is more than a case study: Sirpa’s mathematical biography is a story that describes how she constructs her mathematical identity. I also analysed the key rhetoric that Sirpa used in her talk, key rhetoric here referring to the strategy by which she constructed continuity and coherence.     

Seinfeld's Democratic Vistas

Academic appraisals of Seinfeld frequently criticize the series as apolitical or as advancing a nihilism that threatens contemporary American society. I counter that the show is better understood as a political satire that advances a robust democratic discourse predicated on inefficiency, leisure, and excessive talk. I argue that Seinfeld's discourse provides a vision of hope for democratic interaction predicated on the commonality of vices rather than a collapse into fascism or the disciplining of rhetoric by presumably higher moral standards.     

Presidential rhetoric's visual turn: Performance fragments and the politics of illusionism

This essay explores the aesthetic and rhetorical implications of prudent and imprudent presidential performance fragments embodied in photo‐opportunities, thereby addressing presidential rhetoric's “visual turn. “Assembled as a critical rhetoric text, this essay posits that presidential performance fragments privilege the dominant ideology and its power relationships. In addition, this project argues that prudent presidential performances signal a chief executive's consubstantiality with the mythic presidency, centralized authority, and active political leadership. Imprudent photo‐opportunity performances, by contrast, impact negatively a president's image, agenda, credibility, and authority. The essay concludes with a discussion of how political images symbolically affect the citizenry and democratic processes, and advances foundational issues for the critic.     

Intercultural Communication and the Central States Region

This reflection essay describes the Central States Region as an area rich in intercultural communication. González describes Mexican American migrant farmworker organizing as an intercultural activity since the union activists attempted to influence both Mexican heritage and European heritage audiences. González also describes the many interculturalists working in the Midwest who influenced his early research.     

言语行为中的语用修辞——以英语陈述句为例

作为语用学的核心理论,言语行为的中心思想是说话可以看作是做事。陈述句并非都表达"陈述",说话人可以越过字面意义实施多种言语行为,形式和功能不是绝对的对应。修辞使说话者更加生动形象地表达自己的言语行为,使人们的话语交际成功有效。从修辞角度分析陈述句中的各种言语行为,比较言语行为中的同义表达手段,分析词汇、语法和语义等修辞手段在实施不同言语行为中的作用,由此得出:修辞使说话者的话语依赖言语环境,有时妙语双关,有时含蓄幽默,有时指桑骂槐,使言语行为产生种种修辞效果,提高了言语行为的表达效果。     

把辞章学研究推向前进

辞章学是＂大修辞学＂,或称＂广义修辞学＂,它和经学、史学一样,是＂吾国之菁英＂,是言语艺术的国学。我国辞章学的发展可分三个时期：古代期、古今过渡期、现代期。本文简述古代期辞章学;较具体地阐释过渡期倡建辞章学的观点;较详细地叙述了现代期辞章学各类型代表作及其理论成果和存在的问题,在此基础上,提出中、近期的研究规划,研究应注意的原则和如何实现计划的措施。     

英汉诗歌常用音韵修辞手段对比探析

英汉诗歌在音韵修辞手段上存在着异同点,通过对比摹声与Onomatopoeia,双声、叠韵与Alliteration,Assonance以及谐音双关等三个方面,探析出现此种情况的原因,即：语音系统、构词方法的差异、文化背景的特质、诗歌语言的特性、认知与审美的影响等,以论证英汉诗歌音韵修辞手段的使用是为了达到美韵、美意、美境的效果。     

《金瓶梅》互文本的戏拟：情节架构与人物形象

文章从文本的共存关系和派生关系来分析《金瓶梅》的互文性,重点分析《金瓶梅》对前文本《水浒传》和《西厢记》情节架构和人物形象的戏拟,并解读其修辞价值。     

修辞的性别分野与女性修辞研究——评谢元春博士的《女性修辞研究》

＂修辞的性别分野＂就像人类自有语言以来便有修辞一样,是一种自然而正常的现象。但是,这种现象一直为语言学界特别是修辞学界所忽视,相关研究一直未予展开。谢元春博士《女性修辞研究》一书运用定量统计分析的方法,对此展开了深入的研究,得出了令人信服的结论,并在理论上予以了阐释。这一研究成果既拓展了修辞学研究的视域,促进了修辞学研究的深入,也对人们的修辞实践提供了更为直接的理论指导。     

略论汉语语法结构隐含的修辞意义

汉语的语法结构形式除具有语法意义之外,还隐含着较为丰富的修辞意义,词的重叠结构具有情感特征、描写功能;短语固化结构中的“一v—v”式有描绘功能、“N中的N”式具有突显功能;句式中的“s比N还N”句式有强化主语“s”的语义含义,突出主语特征,有说话者的主观评价;“N就是N”句式使句子意义强化,加上语境的补充,使之有想象空间,扩大含义;“N2（全体）是N1（个体）”句式强调宾语、凸显宾语。’