《英语主要辞格语用解读》编著者韩仲谦。

Figures of speech or tropes have always been interesting topicsfor language researchers as well as average language users. Howev-er, traditional approaches to the study of various tropes rest on theeffectiveness of language expressiveness, seldom referring to theroles which language producers and audience may play, not to men-tion the study of the psychology of language users. Modern pragmat-ics also approach to the effectiveness of use in language communica-tion. It shares with traditional rhetoric the same main content andphilosophical foundation, and may thus offer new methods of explo-ration for traditional rhetorical tropes. Therefore, the mutual infil-tration of the two disciplines in their contents and research methodswill inject new vitality to each other and upgrade their theoretic andacademic levels.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Pragmatics and Rhetoric

 2.1 Pragmatics

 2.1.1 Origin and history

 2.1.2 Definition

 2.1.3 Areas of interests

 2.1.4Criticism and defense

 2.2 Rhetoric

 2.2.1 Origin of rhetoric

 2.2.2 Definition

 2.2.3 Traditional rhetoric

 2.2.4 Modern rhetoric

 2.2.5 Interests of modern rhetoric

 2.2.6 Elements of rhetoric

 2.2.7 Rhetoric of or in a discourse

 2.2.8 Purposes of figures of speech

 2.3 Relationship between pragmatics and rhetoric 

 2.3.1 Prescriptive vs.descriptive and generation vs.interpretation

 2.3.2 Kinds of discourse

 2.3.3 Language use

 2.3.4Conversation analysis and disposition 

 2.3.5 Questions under discussion?

 2.3.6 Language production and invention

 2.3.7 Intentions in communication

 2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Pragmatic Theories

 3.1 Introduction

 3.2 Deixis and presupposition

 3.3 Speech act theory

 3.3.1 Direct speech acts

 3.3.2 Indirect speech acts

 3.4 Conversational implicature

 3.5 The cooperative principle (CP)

 3.6 The politeness principle (PP)

 3.7 Face and politeness strategies

 3.8 The interest principle (IP)

 3.9 The relevance theory (RT)

 3.10 Summary

Chapter 4 Figures of Speech in English

 4.1 Introduction

 4.2 Examples and observations

 4.3 Values of figures of speech

 4.4 Types of figures of speech

 4.5Conventional ways to the study of figure of speech and existing problems

 4.6 Summary

Chapter 5 Allegory

 5.1 Introduction

 5.2 Definition of allegory

 5.3Characteristics of allegory

 5.4Categories of allegory

 5.5 An illustration of allegory

 5.6 Allegories as speech acts

 5.6.1 Well-formedness of an allegory

 5.6.2 Speech acts

 5.7 Summary

Chapter 6 Analogy

 6.1 Introduction

 6.2 Definition of analogy

 6.3 Features and functions of analogy

 6.4 Examples of analogy

 6.5 Relevance-theoretic interpretation of analogy

 6.6 Analogy's pragmatic nature and cognitive schema

 6.7Common forms of pragmatic analogy

 6.8 Summary

Chapter 7 Antonomasia

 7.1 Introduction

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