34.1896, Books: Fictive questions in the "Zhuangzi": Xiang

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Date: 09-Jun-2023
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Fictive questions in the "Zhuangzi": Xiang 


Title: Fictive questions in the "Zhuangzi"
Subtitle: A cognitive rhetorical study
Series Title: Figurative Thought and Language   18
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ftl.18

Author: Mingjian Xiang
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213792 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213792 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213792 Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027250032 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027250032 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027250032 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:

Rhetoric is intimately related to interaction and cognition. This book
explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case
study of the rhetorical use of interactional structures, namely
expository questions and rhetorical questions, in the classical
Chinese tradition. Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent
answers in the addressee’s mind, thereby involving a fictive type of
interaction. The book analyzes fictive questions as intersubjective
mixed viewpoint constructions, involving a viewpoint blend of the
perspectives of the writer, the assumed prospective readers, and
possibly also that of the discourse characters. The analysis further
shows that in addition to attention, other late developing human
capacities such as mental simulation and perspective taking also have
a pivotal role to play in rhetoric, on the basis of which a
simulation-based rhetorical model of persuasion is proposed to account
for meaning construction in rhetorical practices. The book will
influence our understanding of rhetorical practices outside the
Western tradition but within the framework of cognitive semantics.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Pragmatics

Written In: English (eng)

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