Practical Modern Chinese Rhetoric

Author: Wang Benhua
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: "Practical Modern Chinese Rhetoric" is one of the books in the Chinese Knowledge Series. The rhetoric of modern Chinese is an art of using language, and its material basis is naturally language. However, this does not mean that language itself is rhetoric. This book aims to make the language clearer, more concise, and more vivid, in order to achieve better expression. Rhetoric is the art of using language, and there is a saying that "the same thing can be said in a hundred different ways." Although this is an exaggerated statement, it reveals the reality of language use. But is it true that "a hundred different ways" can be used at will in any situation? Not at all. It should be able to choose the most appropriate way according to the needs of expression, in order to improve the expressive effect of language. This is what we call rhetoric.