This article, against the knowledge background of four comprehensive survey works, Jiang(1985), Zhou(1998), Liao(1999),Liu(2001), and based on an amount of literature review; induces three themes of the cotemporary studies on rhetoric of "Ma s Theory of Word", including all kinds of achievements in the field of micro-rhetoric, theoretical rhetoric and applied rhetoric.

The second lies in the thought that philosophy,including rhetoric argument philosophy and logical reasoning philosophy,is the rational censoring of some customs and basic principles accustomed to people.

The Monument of Rhetoric in China in the 20th Century——the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the General Discourse of Rhetoric;