从亚氏的修辞手段解读奥巴马的费城演讲

从2007年2月宣布参选到2008年11月取得选举之完胜,奥巴马的演说魅力在其中是功不可没的。在演讲中他用了什么沟通方式和演说技巧来融合社会不同的阶层并让众人在情感和理智面都深受感动是值得所有语言学习者深入探讨的。我们可以从亚里士多德的修辞手段出发来分析奥巴马2008年在费城的题为“为打造更完美的城邦”这篇演讲是如何利用修辞人格、情感和道理这三种有效的说服方式及具体的策略来达到最佳的话语效果。     

Learning science in an era of globalization: a phenomenology of the foreign/strange

In this study, we propose a set of concepts for conceptualizing issues of learning science related to globalization, the encounter with the (radically) foreign/strange—as this occurs as part of migration and even as part of the encounter of a learner with the unknown content that science lessons are to impart—from the perspective of the experiencing person and the experience. We take an approach to the question of the foreign/strange that is grounded in philosophies of difference, which have emerged in continental Europe, and which make use of advances in phenomenology, dialectics, and materialism. We draw on ethnographic work in one undergraduate physics course at a Canadian university, where we followed in particular one female Japanese student, who had come to this country for the purpose of getting a degree. As an entry point and as source of empirical materials, we draw on our own auto/ethnographic experience that brings particular advantages to ally pathos to the experience of the foreign/strange, something is happening to (affecting) us that is beyond all experience, understanding, and anticipation. We articulate three phenomenological aspects that pathos (empathy) allows us to understand concerning the experience of the foreign/strange and then provide an exemplary and exemplifying analysis.

From Wimsey to The Wire: Distracting Discourse and Attentional Practice

This essay explores the intervolvement of attentional practice and discursive action. Drawing on Michael Polanyi's phenomenology, I examine occasions when discourse does not sound like deliberate utterance and when attention does not look rationally focused—but when both are rhetorically inventive. Taking a cue from the growing (though conceptually and historically thin) self-help literature on attention and mindfulness, I examine the sometimes distracting speech of that paragon of attentiveness, the fictional detective. Dorothy Sayers’ witty sleuth, Wimsey, and The Wire's profane investigators, Bunk and McNulty, practice transgressive speech that seems nonsensical, but which animates and extends indirect attention for the sake of solving problems in bewildering conditions. These case studies in crime fiction strengthen rhetorical scholarship on embodiment, affect, and verbal inadvertency by locating deliberative dimensions in apparently indeliberate discourses. This essay concludes by conceptualizing the communicative practice that modulates indirect attention, referring to its transgressive nonsensicality as a rhetoric of idiocy.     

从西方修辞学三诉诸的角度分析奥巴马宣布拉登死讯的演讲

本文以亚里士多德的三诉诸修辞理论为指导,分析英语演讲中的三种诉诸手段:理性诉诸、情感诉诸和人品诉诸的作用。三诉诸是研究表达和劝说的学问,本文以奥巴马宣布拉登死讯的演讲稿为研究材料,考察了三诉诸的语言运用策略,主要目的在于考察奥巴马政府如何利用修辞学的表象特征来达到抚慰国民、阐述国策、维护美国国家利益的目的。     

纳兰性德悲情人格的文化成因

纳兰性德是一个具有生命悲剧感的满族词人。其词具有悲情诗学的典范意义。最能概括纳兰词风貌的应该是：悲情。纳兰悲情人格的形成,既是作者个体特有的思想和行为及其对环境的反映,又是特定的社会时代背景孕育的结果,同时又深深地植根于一定的民族文化土壤之中,从汉族传统文化对其人生的影响和规范来解读纳兰的悲情人格。