《英語修辭學》系“高等院校英語語言文學專業(yè)研究生系列教材”中的一本。本教材引進、介紹了國外英語修辭學的最新研究理論和成果,并針對我國社會、文化和教育等方面的實際情況,創(chuàng)新地將英語修辭學理論與應用緊密地結合起來。本教材共11章,分別介紹和闡釋了:修辭學的界定、古典修辭學的發(fā)展脈絡、英國與美國對傳統修辭學的研究、當代英語修辭學的理論建構、新修辭學、作文修辭學、文體修辭學、英語修辭學的跨學科性、修辭評論。This book treats "rhetoric" as the study of an interdisciplinary theory of language and meaning. Specifically, this book is a study of rhetoric which has grown to encompass a theory of language as a form of social behavior, of intention and interpretation as the determinants of meaning, in the way that knowledge is created by argument, and in the way that ideology and power are extended through discourse.The whole book is composed of the following 11 chapters:1. Traditional dfinitions of rhetoric2. The classical tradition of rhetoric3. Traditional rhetoric in England4. Traditional rhetoric in American5. Theory construction of cntemporary rhetoric6. Probes of contemporary rhetorical theory7. New rhetoric8. Rhetoric and compostion studies9. Rhetoric and figures of speech10. Contemporary rhetoric: interdisciplinary studies11. Rhetorical criticism