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Download full textCai, Guanjun – 1994
The persistent cultural conservatism in Western scholarship has led to the exclusion of Chinese rhetoric from the canon of rhetorical studies. However, the assumption that Chinese culture does not have a rhetorical tradition is misleading and inappropriate. It stems from any number of notions: that the Chinese language is not as logical as those…
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries
