Zhan Guo Ce Rhetorical Analysis
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Sanchez, Javier Carames
Abstract
The purpose of this master thesis is analyzing the rhetorical techniques of Zhan Guo Ce戰國策. Although there are few studiesabout the rhetoric in this work, all these lack a suitable terminology system for the analysis of his speeches. For this reason, I will use a terminology system whose origin is the Greco-Roman rhetoric.
In the second chapter I will analyze the rhetorical Zhan Guo Ce value.Although the intention of the editor , Liu Xiang劉向, had no connection with the rhetoric , but the main focus of the chapters is the persuasive act. There are passages whose prose has more relevance than speeches . In these passages there are sophisticated persuasive acts and rhetoric closely related information.
The third chapter will present the rhetorical theory of the Warring States Period and their use in Zhan Guo Ce. Han Feizi and Gui Gu Zi developed a concept identical to Aristotelian pathos . In the Zhan Guo Ce speeches there are also pathos strategies that correspond to what Han Feizi and Gui Gu Zi said. The narrator pays attention to the psychological effect they cause.
In the fourth chapter I will analyze four rhetorical figures that frequently appear in Zhan Guo Ce from the point of view of pathos .These rhetorical figures are the fable, the historical example , the rhetorical question and the argument ad verecundiam . This chapter will also see historical examples similar with the strategies that Gui Gu Zi expose in Mo Bian and Bian Chuai .
In the fifth chapter I will compare the rhetorical Zhan Guo Ce objective with Guo Yu國語Zuo Zhuan左傳. The discourses of Guo Yu and Zuo Zhuan are the ethical teaching service while The discourses of Zhan Guo Ce are examples of persuasion success. Researchers have found that the Guo Yu and Zuo Zhuan emphasize ethics while Zhan Guo Ce is only interested in benefit . This chapter will argue that , although it is true that shi士 seek benefits , but should not be ignored that Zhan Guo Ce has his own ethical values.
Subjects
修辭學
戰國策
情緒
修辭理論
Type
thesis
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