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- Title
Interality as a Key to Deciphering Guiguzi: A Challenge to Critics.
- Authors
Hui Wu; Swearingen, C. Jan
- Abstract
This article applies interality as a hermeneutic to a reassessment of Chinese rhetorical practice influenced by Guiguzi, China's earliest treatise on the art of persuasion. Continuing controversy in Western studies and translations surrounds both Chinese rhetoric and the rhetorical value of Guiguzi. Using an ancient model for persuasion allegedly exemplifying the rhetorical principles in Guiguzi, this study proposes that Guigucian rhetoric requires critics to revise their understanding of relational rationality in several interalial interactions: among rhetorical contexts, as manifest in non-linear but nonetheless interrelated components of discourse, as reflected in an explicit awareness of change and space, and as an emphasis on human relationships in Master Guigu's forms of logic and teaching of persuasion.
- Subjects
CHINA; HERMENEUTICS; RHETORIC; PERSUASION (Rhetoric); DISCOURSE; CHANGE; SPACE; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016, Vol 41, Issue 3, p503
- ISSN
0705-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22230/cjc.2016v41n3a3187