Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality....Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.A set of 60 essays(30 with the highest scores and another 30 with the lowest scores)were drawn from SWECCL(Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners).These essays were then cut into elementary discourse units and manually annotated with rhetorical relations.Research findings show that there is no significant difference in terms of the total numbers and types of rhetorical relations between the two proficiency groups.However,comparisons of the rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.展开更多
Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the stru...Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.展开更多
As is known to all,headlines serve as a summary and advertisement for the main idea of the news so as to make the reader have a better understanding.Therefore,to some degree,we can say that the headline is the soul of...As is known to all,headlines serve as a summary and advertisement for the main idea of the news so as to make the reader have a better understanding.Therefore,to some degree,we can say that the headline is the soul of a news report.Rhetoric,in all kinds of writing in all kinds of languages,can be applied and make an efficient effect.As for an English news headline,it is usually formed with certain rhetorical device to embody its soul and to appeal to more readers.This paper is to introduce and discuss the rhetorical features of the news headlines with examples and analysis.展开更多
Thoreau expresses his love for nature and criticism of materialism in Walden,emphasizing the harmonious relationship between nature and human beings.Besides this significance,rhetorical devices like simile,metaphor,pe...Thoreau expresses his love for nature and criticism of materialism in Walden,emphasizing the harmonious relationship between nature and human beings.Besides this significance,rhetorical devices like simile,metaphor,personification,parallelism,overstatement,irony and pun contribute to unique charm of this masterpiece's language and thoughts.展开更多
Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream is a world famous and influential lecture on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.To make lecture powerful,Dr.King use large number of rhetorical devices to conveyed a ...Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream is a world famous and influential lecture on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.To make lecture powerful,Dr.King use large number of rhetorical devices to conveyed a message for justice and equality.The analysis of these rhetorical devices aims at a better understanding of the theme of the speech.展开更多
The most important target of advertisement rhetoric is its aesthetic effect and persuasive force.In order to get this aim,the advertisement usually resorts to the rhetoric devices.This paper firstly gives an introduct...The most important target of advertisement rhetoric is its aesthetic effect and persuasive force.In order to get this aim,the advertisement usually resorts to the rhetoric devices.This paper firstly gives an introduction to the English advertisement,and then it supplies a detailed discussion of some principal rhetorical devices used in English advertisements,that is: parallelism,repetition,pun,irony,parody,figure of speech,creating speech,rhyming and contrast.By using these rhetorical devices and the carefully-chosen words and well-balanced sentences,the advertising words are colorful and have a powerful strength of persuasion.展开更多
The movie Dead Poets Society is a blockbuster and attracts different researches from different perspective, such as the image and personality of characters, or the linguistic features. However, few of the researchers ...The movie Dead Poets Society is a blockbuster and attracts different researches from different perspective, such as the image and personality of characters, or the linguistic features. However, few of the researchers conduct this study by using rhetorics. Thus, this study analyze the movie based on the theories of rhetorics, hoping to give some implications to those who are interested in rhetorical analysis.展开更多
As a method of word fineness,rhetoric plays an important role in the process of translation.Due to differences of language and cultural background,rhetoric is different between English and Chinese.As a result,how to d...As a method of word fineness,rhetoric plays an important role in the process of translation.Due to differences of language and cultural background,rhetoric is different between English and Chinese.As a result,how to deal with rhetoric in translation has become a hot topic.Firstly,this paper presents the definition of rhetoric in detail.Then,four strategies are put forward to solve problems in the process of translation:literal translation,literal translation plus notes,substitution and free translation.展开更多
Rhetorical criticism enjoys a long history of studies, and the researchin this field upsurged at the end of 20th century and the beginning of 21st century.In the article, the author aims to investigate the development...Rhetorical criticism enjoys a long history of studies, and the researchin this field upsurged at the end of 20th century and the beginning of 21st century.In the article, the author aims to investigate the developmental trends in this filedat home and abroad by a literature review of the studies in the past two decades.It has been proved in the research that domestic studies can be classified into fourtypes—introducing theories of western rhetorical criticism in the U.S., building newmodels of western rhetorical criticism, comparing theories of Chinese and Westernrhetorical criticism, and applying western rhetorical criticism into domestic use; whilestudies abroad in this field, especially in the U. S., keep deepening and upgrading itstheories on the basis of its profundity, and enlarging its research scope. A literaturereview of western rhetorical criticism in the past two decades can provide someacademic nutrition to domestic research and deliver certain implicational meaningto it. In the future, more studies should be carried out to systematize the theory ofwestern rhetorical criticism and to incorporate the updated theory into the analysis ofrhetorical practice in our country, thus expressing the strong interpretative power ofwestern rhetorical criticism.展开更多
Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical tre...Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.展开更多
As the first winner of"The Hugo Award"in Asia, Liu Cixin has applied an army of rhetorical devices in his scientific fictions. How to translate these rhetorical devices is of great importance to the apprecia...As the first winner of"The Hugo Award"in Asia, Liu Cixin has applied an army of rhetorical devices in his scientific fictions. How to translate these rhetorical devices is of great importance to the appreciation of the science fictions. With the aim of researching the strategies of the translation of the rhetorical devices in the Science Fiction, this paper has a discussion on the strategies of translating the rhetorical devices in English in the light of the Skopos Theory. It is hoped that this study may be of some help to future translation practitioners who want to translate China's SF works into foreign languages and the teaching of the same.展开更多
The most evident linguistic feature of The Bridges of Madison County is the extensive use of rhetorical devices to strength-en the aesthetics of language, so rhetorical translation exerts an influence, to a certain ex...The most evident linguistic feature of The Bridges of Madison County is the extensive use of rhetorical devices to strength-en the aesthetics of language, so rhetorical translation exerts an influence, to a certain extent, on the linguistic beauty of its transla-tions. Here it cites examples from the original book and Zi Zhongyun’s Chinese translation, analyzing and summarizing translationmethods of rhetorical devices used by the translator in her translation. It is concluded that main methods of rhetorical translationare literal translation of rhetoric, rhetorical omission and rhetorical shift, making an attempt to add new content for relevant studiesof this Chinese translation.展开更多
In keeping abreast with the development of world economy and technology of mass media, advertising becomes more and more important in the economic development as well as our daily life. As a kind of English for Specif...In keeping abreast with the development of world economy and technology of mass media, advertising becomes more and more important in the economic development as well as our daily life. As a kind of English for Specific Purposes(ESP), advertising English(or English for Advertising) attracts more and more attention in academic field and the economic field as well. Many scholars have done some researches in relation to the rhetorical characteristics of advertising English. In this paper, the author purports to discuss the use and advantages of the rhetorical methods in advertising English from two perspectives, i.e. phonological, lexical perspectives.展开更多
A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth's rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills infl...A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth's rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills influence the readers'interpretation to the work by analyzing the application of narrative visual conversion, irony and foreshadowing. It will help readers understand the full fiction better.展开更多
The theme about the cruelty of time frequently appears in Shakespeare's sonnets including the 60 th one. In this sonnet,rhetorical devices contribute to vividly express the meanings of the poem. That is time is cr...The theme about the cruelty of time frequently appears in Shakespeare's sonnets including the 60 th one. In this sonnet,rhetorical devices contribute to vividly express the meanings of the poem. That is time is cruel and ravaging and it destroys everything, but this poem will enable the young man's worth or beauty to be free from the mighty power of the"bloody tyrant"time and to live forever. In addition, these meanings are reinforced by the sounds and rhythms.展开更多
Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Boot...Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth's criterion of the distance between the narrator and the implied author and James Phelan's extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology,point⁃ing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work:"The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth,and Eastern European Jewish com⁃munity was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.展开更多
Ode to the West Wind is one of the masterpiece of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the image"west wind"is the core of the poem. This paper will analyze the poem with the rhetorical devices, including alliteration, ...Ode to the West Wind is one of the masterpiece of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the image"west wind"is the core of the poem. This paper will analyze the poem with the rhetorical devices, including alliteration, simile, metaphor and hyperbole and so on. The usage of the rhetorical device makes the language more profound and intense, models the image more vivid and attentive and lets the theme more clear and distinct.展开更多
This paper briefly stated the importance and function of research article abstracts and introduced four rhetorical models in describing the organization of them. These models are Swales (1990), Bhatia (1994), Santos (...This paper briefly stated the importance and function of research article abstracts and introduced four rhetorical models in describing the organization of them. These models are Swales (1990), Bhatia (1994), Santos (1996) and Hyland (2000). The purpose of this paper is to provide research article writers with acknowledged frameworks to write acceptable abstracts.展开更多
Pun is one of the most common figures of speech in English. It is the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications or of words having the same or nearly the same sound but diff...Pun is one of the most common figures of speech in English. It is the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications or of words having the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings. Due to the comparative complexity of its formation, there are different ways of classification of English pun. And some special rhetorical effects can be achieved by the employment of English pun.展开更多
The theory rhetoric situation put forward by Bitzer is applied to the analysis of President Bush's address on September 11. Such these essential elements as the exigence, audience and constraints will be illustrat...The theory rhetoric situation put forward by Bitzer is applied to the analysis of President Bush's address on September 11. Such these essential elements as the exigence, audience and constraints will be illustrated to reveal the cultural and religious roots behind the September 11 terrorist attack.展开更多
文摘Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.A set of 60 essays(30 with the highest scores and another 30 with the lowest scores)were drawn from SWECCL(Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners).These essays were then cut into elementary discourse units and manually annotated with rhetorical relations.Research findings show that there is no significant difference in terms of the total numbers and types of rhetorical relations between the two proficiency groups.However,comparisons of the rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.
文摘Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.
文摘As is known to all,headlines serve as a summary and advertisement for the main idea of the news so as to make the reader have a better understanding.Therefore,to some degree,we can say that the headline is the soul of a news report.Rhetoric,in all kinds of writing in all kinds of languages,can be applied and make an efficient effect.As for an English news headline,it is usually formed with certain rhetorical device to embody its soul and to appeal to more readers.This paper is to introduce and discuss the rhetorical features of the news headlines with examples and analysis.
文摘Thoreau expresses his love for nature and criticism of materialism in Walden,emphasizing the harmonious relationship between nature and human beings.Besides this significance,rhetorical devices like simile,metaphor,personification,parallelism,overstatement,irony and pun contribute to unique charm of this masterpiece's language and thoughts.
文摘Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream is a world famous and influential lecture on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.To make lecture powerful,Dr.King use large number of rhetorical devices to conveyed a message for justice and equality.The analysis of these rhetorical devices aims at a better understanding of the theme of the speech.
文摘The most important target of advertisement rhetoric is its aesthetic effect and persuasive force.In order to get this aim,the advertisement usually resorts to the rhetoric devices.This paper firstly gives an introduction to the English advertisement,and then it supplies a detailed discussion of some principal rhetorical devices used in English advertisements,that is: parallelism,repetition,pun,irony,parody,figure of speech,creating speech,rhyming and contrast.By using these rhetorical devices and the carefully-chosen words and well-balanced sentences,the advertising words are colorful and have a powerful strength of persuasion.
文摘The movie Dead Poets Society is a blockbuster and attracts different researches from different perspective, such as the image and personality of characters, or the linguistic features. However, few of the researchers conduct this study by using rhetorics. Thus, this study analyze the movie based on the theories of rhetorics, hoping to give some implications to those who are interested in rhetorical analysis.
文摘As a method of word fineness,rhetoric plays an important role in the process of translation.Due to differences of language and cultural background,rhetoric is different between English and Chinese.As a result,how to deal with rhetoric in translation has become a hot topic.Firstly,this paper presents the definition of rhetoric in detail.Then,four strategies are put forward to solve problems in the process of translation:literal translation,literal translation plus notes,substitution and free translation.
文摘Rhetorical criticism enjoys a long history of studies, and the researchin this field upsurged at the end of 20th century and the beginning of 21st century.In the article, the author aims to investigate the developmental trends in this filedat home and abroad by a literature review of the studies in the past two decades.It has been proved in the research that domestic studies can be classified into fourtypes—introducing theories of western rhetorical criticism in the U.S., building newmodels of western rhetorical criticism, comparing theories of Chinese and Westernrhetorical criticism, and applying western rhetorical criticism into domestic use; whilestudies abroad in this field, especially in the U. S., keep deepening and upgrading itstheories on the basis of its profundity, and enlarging its research scope. A literaturereview of western rhetorical criticism in the past two decades can provide someacademic nutrition to domestic research and deliver certain implicational meaningto it. In the future, more studies should be carried out to systematize the theory ofwestern rhetorical criticism and to incorporate the updated theory into the analysis ofrhetorical practice in our country, thus expressing the strong interpretative power ofwestern rhetorical criticism.
文摘Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.
文摘As the first winner of"The Hugo Award"in Asia, Liu Cixin has applied an army of rhetorical devices in his scientific fictions. How to translate these rhetorical devices is of great importance to the appreciation of the science fictions. With the aim of researching the strategies of the translation of the rhetorical devices in the Science Fiction, this paper has a discussion on the strategies of translating the rhetorical devices in English in the light of the Skopos Theory. It is hoped that this study may be of some help to future translation practitioners who want to translate China's SF works into foreign languages and the teaching of the same.
文摘The most evident linguistic feature of The Bridges of Madison County is the extensive use of rhetorical devices to strength-en the aesthetics of language, so rhetorical translation exerts an influence, to a certain extent, on the linguistic beauty of its transla-tions. Here it cites examples from the original book and Zi Zhongyun’s Chinese translation, analyzing and summarizing translationmethods of rhetorical devices used by the translator in her translation. It is concluded that main methods of rhetorical translationare literal translation of rhetoric, rhetorical omission and rhetorical shift, making an attempt to add new content for relevant studiesof this Chinese translation.
文摘In keeping abreast with the development of world economy and technology of mass media, advertising becomes more and more important in the economic development as well as our daily life. As a kind of English for Specific Purposes(ESP), advertising English(or English for Advertising) attracts more and more attention in academic field and the economic field as well. Many scholars have done some researches in relation to the rhetorical characteristics of advertising English. In this paper, the author purports to discuss the use and advantages of the rhetorical methods in advertising English from two perspectives, i.e. phonological, lexical perspectives.
文摘A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth's rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills influence the readers'interpretation to the work by analyzing the application of narrative visual conversion, irony and foreshadowing. It will help readers understand the full fiction better.
文摘The theme about the cruelty of time frequently appears in Shakespeare's sonnets including the 60 th one. In this sonnet,rhetorical devices contribute to vividly express the meanings of the poem. That is time is cruel and ravaging and it destroys everything, but this poem will enable the young man's worth or beauty to be free from the mighty power of the"bloody tyrant"time and to live forever. In addition, these meanings are reinforced by the sounds and rhythms.
文摘Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth's criterion of the distance between the narrator and the implied author and James Phelan's extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology,point⁃ing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work:"The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth,and Eastern European Jewish com⁃munity was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.
文摘Ode to the West Wind is one of the masterpiece of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the image"west wind"is the core of the poem. This paper will analyze the poem with the rhetorical devices, including alliteration, simile, metaphor and hyperbole and so on. The usage of the rhetorical device makes the language more profound and intense, models the image more vivid and attentive and lets the theme more clear and distinct.
文摘This paper briefly stated the importance and function of research article abstracts and introduced four rhetorical models in describing the organization of them. These models are Swales (1990), Bhatia (1994), Santos (1996) and Hyland (2000). The purpose of this paper is to provide research article writers with acknowledged frameworks to write acceptable abstracts.
文摘Pun is one of the most common figures of speech in English. It is the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or applications or of words having the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings. Due to the comparative complexity of its formation, there are different ways of classification of English pun. And some special rhetorical effects can be achieved by the employment of English pun.
文摘The theory rhetoric situation put forward by Bitzer is applied to the analysis of President Bush's address on September 11. Such these essential elements as the exigence, audience and constraints will be illustrated to reveal the cultural and religious roots behind the September 11 terrorist attack.
