《英语修辞学》系“高等院校英语语言文学专业研究生系列教材”中的一本。本教材引进、介绍了国外英语修辞学的最新研究理论和成果,并针对我国社会、文化和教育等方面的实际情况,创新地将英语修辞学理论与应用紧密地结合起来。本教材共11章,分别介绍和阐释了:修辞学的界定、古典修辞学的发展脉络、英国与美国对传统修辞学的研究、当代英语修辞学的理论建构、新修辞学、作文修辞学、文体修辞学、英语修辞学的跨学科性、修辞评论。This book treats "rhetoric" as the study of an interdisciplinary theory of language and meaning. Specifically, this book is a study of rhetoric which has grown to encompass a theory of language as a form of social behavior, of intention and interpretation as the determinants of meaning, in the way that knowledge is created by argument, and in the way that ideology and power are extended through discourse.The whole book is composed of the following 11 chapters:1. Traditional dfinitions of rhetoric2. The classical tradition of rhetoric3. Traditional rhetoric in England4. Traditional rhetoric in American5. Theory construction of cntemporary rhetoric6. Probes of contemporary rhetorical theory7. New rhetoric8. Rhetoric and compostion studies9. Rhetoric and figures of speech10. Contemporary rhetoric: interdisciplinary studies11. Rhetorical criticism