从"狭义"到"广义":中国修辞学研究转型及其学术意义

世纪之交,中国修辞学研究正经历着从"狭义"到"广义"的转型.20世纪初建立的狭义修辞学是以语言为本位的,修辞学研究局限在语言学的范围里对表达技巧等做总结归纳,其理论基础、理论深度、理论生命力等都是有限的.广义修辞学以突破语言学本位观念、走出技巧论为出发点,力图把修辞学理论扎根在更为广泛的社会人文、心理思维、乃至自然存在的基础上.这种"转型"促进了中国修辞学研究的观念鼎新,必将引起中国修辞学研究的深刻变革.

From "Narrow" to "Broad": the Transformation of Rhetoric Studies in China and Its Academic Significance

The rhetoric studies in China are undergoing a significant transformation from its narrow sense to a broad sense along with the turn of the centuries. Having language as the standard,rhetoric in its narrow sense established in the early 1900s,confines itself to the study of expressing techniques within the realm of linguistics,which results in the limitations in terms of its theoretical basis,depth and vitality.Rhetoric in the broad sense,however,proceeding form the break-through of linguistic ontology and expressing techniques,attempts to root the rhetoric theories in a broader field involving social and humane studies,psychology,or even natural beings.This transformation has regenerated the traditional ideas about rhetoric and is bound to lead to the profound reform of the rhetoric studies in China.