Umfang:
XVI, 350 S. : Kt.
ISBN:
1570032165
Serie:
Studies in rhetoric/communication
Anmerkung:
Zusammenfassung d. Verlags: In Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E., Xing Lu examines language art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices in the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of ten well-known Chinese thinkers from Confucius to Han Feizi as well as on the Later Mohists, a group that represents five schools of thought-Mingjia, Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, and Legalism. Lu identifies seven key Chinese terms pertaining to speech, language, persuasion, and argumentation as they appeared in these original texts, selecting ming bian as the linchpin for the Chinese conceptual term of rhetorical studies. The author shows that ancient Chinese rhetorical practices shifted in emphasis from ritualistic ceremony to political persuasion, from poetic composition to philosophical debate. The rhetorical perspectives were diverse, evolutionary, and contextual and were typically characterized by one of four main elements: the moral, epistemological, dialectical, or psychological. Lu compares Chinese rhetorical perspectives with those of the ancient Greeks. The author contends that the Greeks and the Chinese shared a view of rhetoric as an ethical enterprise and of speech as a rational and psychological activity. The two traditions differed, however, in their rhetorical education, sense of rationality, perceptions of the role of language, approach to the treatment and study of rhetoric, and expression of emotions. The author also links ancient Chinese rhetorical perspectives with contemporary Chinese interpersonal and political communication behavior and offers suggestions for multicultural rhetoric that recognizes both culturally specific and transcultural elements of human communication
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-339) and index
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Inhalt: Editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Chinese dynasties from Xia to the warring states period -- Chinese school of thoughts and thinkers -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Perceptions and methodology in the study of classical Chinese rhetoric -- Cultural contexts and rhetorical practices of the pre-Qin period -- Chinese terminology of rhetoric -- Rhetorical features in literary and historical texts -- Conceptualization of Ming Bian: the School of Ming -- Conceptualization of Yan and Ming Bian: the School of Confucianism -- Conceptualization of Ming Bian: the School of Mohism -- Conceptualization of Yan and Ming Bian: the School of Daoism -- Conceptualization of Shui and Ming Bian by Han Feizi -- Conclusions and implications -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Klassisches Chinesisch
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Rhetorik
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Griechisch
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Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-200 v. Chr
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China
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Rhetorik
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Griechenland
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Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-200 v. Chr
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