吴士文和《修辞学发凡》

陈望道所著《修辞学发凡》是中国现代修辞学的奠基之作。吴士文根据唯物辩证法,在充分肯定这本书的历史价值和重大影响的前提下,对该书存在的不足进行了慎重的完善工作。吴士文对辞格理论的科学创新,对辞格分类的合理调整,对辞格和非辞格关系的严密论证以及辞规、辞风新概念的提出和对修辞方式系列化的建构,这些成就表明他为继承和发展陈望道的修辞学说做出了重大的贡献。

Wu Shiwen and an Introduction to Rhetoric

Mr.Chen Wangdao’s an Introduction to Rhetoric is the foundation stone of Chinese modern rhetoric,for which abiding by materialistic dialectics,Mr.Wu Shiwen presented careful improvements on the basis of full affirmation of its historical value and profound influence.And Wu’s achievements,including his scientific innovations in speech figure theory,reasonable adjustments to classification of speech figures,consistent argument on the relation between speech figure and non-speech figure,bringing forward the new concept of cigui and cifeng,and serialization of rhetoric means,are all his significant contributions in inheriting and developing Chen Wangdao’s rhetoric theory.