A Study Of Rhetorical Question In Lu Xun’s Essays

Lu Xun’s essays are concise,humorous,ironic,powerful,logical,rigorous,and profound.They have strong arguments.These characteristics are directly reflected in their language.As far as language expression is concerned,Lu Xun’s essay uses a certain amount of rhetorical questions.The rhetorical question itself is undoubtedly a presupposition that the two parties should have a common attitude towards an event or behavior,but the actual situation may not be the case.Therefore,deliberately asking questions seems to violate the principle of conversational cooperation and politeness.In fact,it can express their own opinions more clearly,increase the power and credibility of the discourse,and thus affect the readers.Therefore,it is especially suitable for political essays.This feature has a certain fit with Lu Xun’s essay style,and a large number of rhetorical questions are set.The use of Lu Xun essay is a major feature.The extensive use of rhetorical questions in Lu Xun’s essays makes the language implied but not loses strength.The expressers use the pen as a knife to rush into the battle,and can adapt to the social context of the time.In this paper,the methods of classification induction,quantitative statistics and comparison are used to combine formal description with rational analysis,and exhaustively explore the questions in Lu Xun’s essay.According to the structure,the rhetorical questions in Lu Xun’s essays can be divided into single questions and combination questions.The single questions are subdivided into specific questions,non-category questions,selection questions,and positive and negative categories.Four types are asked,and typical corpus is selected.By describing the specific characteristics of each category,the paper analyzes the structure,expression and function to explore the language style of Lu Xun’s essay.At the time of description,exhaustive statistics were collected on all the rhetorical questions in Lu Xun’s essays,and the statistics were classified in order to describe the rhetorical questions in Lu Xun’s essay more accurately and objectively.On this basis,the differences in pragmatic functions and expression effects of different rhetorical question types are compared.From the perspective of linguistic form,the rhetorical questions of Lu Xun’s essays include the questioning of form marks and the question of formless marks.Form marks mainly require interrogatives,interrogative pronouns,modal particles,conjunctions,etc.,but these form marks cannot function alone.It must be combined with other information such as intonation and context to complete the task of questioning,especially in context.The combination of context and context,especially context,is particularly close.If you leave the context,you cannot fill the information gap,which will cause ambiguity or martyrdom.understand.Judging from the pragmatic function,Lu Xun’s essays have several functions such as reminding,refuting,proposing,blaming,and requesting approval.These functions have a common feature,that is,the cause of the question is a certain behavior.Causes the author’s dissatisfaction,including the act that should not be done and the inaction that should be done.This resonates with the sharp and literary style of Lu Xun’s essays.Judging from the expression effect,Lu Xun’s essay responded to the social reality problem at that time,and it has a strong pertinence.The material is digging deep from a small point,and a large number of rhetorical means are used to draw the reader’s attention and remind the reader to think.Forming interaction with the readers,secretly setting the direction of thinking for the readers,and presenting the route of thinking about the problem,is more conducive to gaining recognition,thus awakening the nationals,striving for freedom and independence,and also reflecting the deep thoughts of Lu Xun’s thoughts.The use of questions has helped to form the author’s personal style.Lu Xun’s essays are actually more biased towards the political style.The political papers are characterized by logical rigor,strong rationality,and convincing people.The main purpose is to get through discussion.Identification and support,the question of Lu Xun’s essays is especially the combination of questions,logical and rigorous,clear-cut,strong and rational,and the language is very eloquent.It can be said that the style of Lu Xun’s essays complements the characteristics of the questions and complements each other.