Journal of Language Situation and Language Service
JLSLS, Vol. 1, No.1, 2026, pp.149-154
Print ISSN: 3078-3755; Online ISSN: 3104-5065
Journal homepage: https://www.lslsjournal.com
DOI：https://doi.org/10.64058/jlsls260113rcrci
魏雨竹（Wei Yuzhu），吴鹏飞（Wu Pengfei）
摘要：比较修辞学是国际修辞学界的新兴流派，致力于在超越文化二元对立与西方中心视角的前提下探究人类交流的内容与方式。刘东虹的专著《比较修辞学的核心思想与研究路径》系统梳理了该学科自传统对比修辞学、跨文化修辞学发展而来的理论脉络，阐释其“既是研究对象又是研究方法”的共生属性与“语境重构/三元法”的核心方法论，并归纳出三种研究路径，辅以酒店语篇、汉语论证性文体、中缅英语学习者论辩文及中英新闻评论等多项实证研究加以示范。该书厘清了比较修辞学的学科身份，推动方法论由理念走向实践，并在图尔敏模式与语用－辩证模式的改良上体现出理论创新性，对比较修辞学在中国学界的发展具有一定的奠基意义。
关键词：比较修辞学；语境重构；研究路径；劝说性语篇
作者简介：魏雨竹，东南大学外国语学院博士研究生，研究方向：修辞与二语写作。电邮：yuzhuweii@163.com。吴鹏飞，通讯作者，东南大学外国语学院博士研究生，研究方向：修辞与二语写作。电邮：230250094@seu.edu.cn。
Title: Review of Comparative Rhetoric: Core Ideas and Research Approaches
Abstract:Comparative rhetoric is an emerging school within international rhetorical studies, devoted to examining the content and modes of human communication while moving beyond cultural binarism and a Western-centric perspective. Liu Donghong’s monograph Comparative Rhetoric: Core Ideas and Research Approaches systematically traces the discipline’s intellectual lineage as it developed out of traditional contrastive rhetoric and intercultural rhetoric. It elucidates the discipline’s symbiotic nature as “both an object of study and a method of study,” together with its core methodology of “recontextualization/tertium quid,” and distills three research approaches, illustrated through a series of empirical studies on hotel discourse, Chinese argumentative texts, the argumentative writing of Chinese and Burmese learners of English, and Chinese and English news commentaries. The book clarifies the disciplinary identity of comparative rhetoric, advances its methodology from concept to practice, and demonstrates theoretical innovation in its refinements of the Toulmin model and the pragma-dialectical model, thereby laying an important foundation for the development of comparative rhetoric in Chinese academia.
Keywords: comparative rhetoric; recontextualization; research approaches; persuasive discourse
Author Biographies:Wei Yuzhu, PhD student at School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University. Research Focus: rhetoric and second language writing. E-mail: yuzhuweii@163.com. Wu Pengfei, Corresponding author, PhD student at School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University. Research Focus: rhetoric and second language writing. E-mail: 230250094@seu.edu.cn.
Received: 17 May 2026 / Revised: 21 May 2026 / Accepted: 25 May 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.
