In its 40 years of development,contrastive rhetoric has been constantly modifying and revising its analytic frameworks,extending from a purely linguistic framework to a multifaceted linguistic,cognitive and social-cultural framework.

This paper first expounds on the nature and task of the contrastive rhetoric and its close relation with translation studies,then analyses the rhetorical differences among different languages(mostly between Chinese and English) from the dimensions of language and culture at their various levels,and points out that the difficulties and solutions for translation,especially literary translation.

This paper begins with a brief discussion of the theory of linguistic relativity,the cornerstone of contrastive rhetoric.

This paper briefly reviews Kaplan s traditional contrastive rhetoric and its flaws.

Contrastive Rhetoric and English Writing Teaching of non-English Major Students

This paper,by analyzing the history of contrastive rhetoric and the contrastive rhetoric by Chinese,attempts to discuss the discourse differences between English and Chinese,and the relationship between them.

Using contrastive rhetoric as its theoretical framework and integrating the latest achievements in argumentation research in English-speaking countries,this study adopts ANOVA as an analytical tool and makes a dynamic multi-dimensional exploration into reasoning strategies,strength of argument and persuasive appeals in Chinese and English argumentative writing.

The basic transformation of meaning occurs at the level of deep structures of the two languages with clauses as the operational unit,while the generation of the surface structure in the target language is determined not only by the grammar and the comparative rhetoric features of the target language,but also by the semantic strctures of the sentences at the surface structure level in the source l.