Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1News Discourse in This Book
1.2 The Rhetoric of News Discourse
1.3Goal and Structure of This Book
Chapter 2 Earlier Studies on English News Discourse
2.1 Studies in China
2.2Studies in the West
2.3Summary
Chapter 3 An Overview of Rhetoric
3.1Defining Rhetoric
3.1.1The Rhetoric of Definition
3.1.2Definitions of Rhetoric in History
3.2Core Concepts of Rhetoric:Persuasion and Identification
3.3The Realm of Rhetoric
3.4Rhetorical Criticism
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