[内容简介]
A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key texts from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction works, and newspaper reports, Rhetorical Style surveys the arguer's options at the word, sentence, interactive, and passage levels, and illustrates the enduring usefulness of rhetorical stylistics in analyzing and constructing arguments.
[目次]
Introduction
Part I. Word Choice
1. Language or Origin
2. New Words and Changing Uses
3. Categories of Word Choice
4. Language Varieties
5. Tropes
6. Schemes and Figures of Word Choice
Part II. Sentences
7. Sentence Basics: Predication
8. Sentence Construction: Modification
9. Sentence Architecture
10. Figures of Argument
11. Series
12. Prosody and Punctuation
Part III. Interactive Dimension
13. Speaker and Audience Construction
14. Incorporating Other Voices
15. Situation and Occasion
Part IV. Passage Construction
16. Coherence
17. Passage Patterns
18. Amplification References