| 摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Relevant Concepts:Theoretical Underpinnings | 第10-28页 |
| ·An Overview of Western Rhetoric | 第10-16页 |
| ·Defining Rhetoric | 第10-14页 |
| ·Rhetoric's Realm of Operation | 第14-16页 |
| ·Social Functions of Rhetoric | 第16-28页 |
| ·Rhetoric Tests Ideas | 第16-17页 |
| ·Rhetoric Assists Advocacy | 第17页 |
| ·Rhetoric Cultivates Efficient Rhetors | 第17-18页 |
| ·Rhetoric Cultivates Perceptive and Critical Audience | 第18-19页 |
| ·Rhetoric Discovers Facts | 第19页 |
| ·Rheto ric Shapes Knowledge | 第19页 |
| ·Rhetoric Builds Communities | 第19-20页 |
| ·Rhetoric Distributes Power | 第20-28页 |
| Chapter Two Discursive power and Rhetoric | 第28-34页 |
| ·The Relationship between Postmodernism and New Rhetoric | 第28-29页 |
| ·On Discursive Power | 第29-30页 |
| ·Wielding Discursive Power | 第30-34页 |
| ·Discursive Power with Discursive Rules as Its Form of Expression | 第30-31页 |
| ·Inequity of Discursive Power | 第31-32页 |
| ·Two Problems in Exercising Discursive Power | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Three Rhetoric and Violence | 第34-40页 |
| ·Violence:Where Is It? | 第34-35页 |
| ·Rhetoric or Dialogue as a Means to Avoid Acts of Violence and Its Limitations | 第35-36页 |
| ·Rhetoric as Symbolic Violence | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter Four A Case Study:Rhetorical Analysis of the Slapping Incident InvolvingYan Chongnian | 第40-50页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction of the Incident | 第40页 |
| ·The Reasons Why Yan Chongnian Was Slapped? | 第40-47页 |
| ·A Rhetorical Situation:Han Ethnic Chauvinism under the Pretence of AcademicDisputes | 第41-42页 |
| ·Irrational Vying for Discursive Power:Inequity of Discursive Power and DiscursiveViolence | 第42-44页 |
| ·Academic Studies Affected by Ideology | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Responsibility Institutional Power Should Take:the Censorship Practiced byLecture Room | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Lessons Learned from the Incident | 第47-50页 |
| ·Respecting Each Other's Discursive Power:Rational Academic Disputes orDiscussion | 第47-48页 |
| ·Calling for Independent Academic Research and Criticism | 第48页 |
| ·Intensifying the Efforts to Study Rhetorical Discourse and Reinforcing Audiences'Rhetorical and Critical Consciousness | 第48-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| References | 第52-54页 |
| 攻读学位期间承担的科研任务与主要成果 | 第54-56页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第56-58页 |
| 个人简历 | 第58页 |
