本期话题：多元语境中的话语场——文艺复兴时期关于亚里士多德《修辞学》的论争：传播理论的跨文化解读

本演讲探讨了欧洲早期艺复兴期间（大约1350—1700）为解读亚里士多德的（修辞学）中的论述所做出的努力,讨论了欧洲的注释在理解亚里士多德的（修辞学〉中所遇到的困难,关注了当时学意料之外的某些论争,并力图阐释引起这些论争的原因。作认为,人们力图阐释关于一种化的论述并力图从另一种化的需求和兴趣来解读这种论述的努力对中美两国具有重要意义,这些阐释所可能引发的结果也具有积极意义。作的这种解读对当今世界——对中国和“西方”国家富有更为广泛的意义——因为他在试图解读产生于一种化而被转译到另一种化的修辞学和传播学理论。作指出,在欧洲艺复兴时期,人们相信修辞学和社会很大程度上是一回事。修辞学能够使人们避免暴力、摆脱兽性,使许多不同人的思想统一起来,促成一种包容各种矛盾的和谐社会。修辞学使我们变得明。[第一段]

Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle's Rhetoric:Crossing Cultures in Communication Theory

This talk concerns about the efforts made in the period of the Renaissance in early modern Europe(from roughly 1350 to 1700) to understand a treatise of Aristotle's known to us today as The Art of Rhetoric.It focuses on the difficulties that European commentators had in making sense of Aristotle's Rhetoric, and some of the unexpected controversies in which these scholars engaged,and tries to explain why these controversies arose.The author thinks that these efforts are particularly important for both here in China and in the United States for what they suggest about what happens when we try to take a treatise that was written in one culture,and try to understand that treatise within the needs and interests of another culture.The explanation has broader implications for us today in our modern world-both here in China and in the countries of the "West"-as we try to make sense of theories of rhetoric and communication that are developed in one culture,and which are then transferred to another culture.Finally,the author points out that many people in the European Renaissance thought that rhetoric and society were pretty much the same thing.It was rhetoric that made it possible for men to avoid violence and transcend their nature as beasts.It was rhetoric that could lead the thoughts of many different men and blend those differences into a social harmony that embraced all contradictions.It was rhetoric that made us civilized.