| The paper analyzes some of the rhetorical devices employed in Samuelson and Nordhaus's Economics (17th Edition), such as hedged knowledge claims, lexical signals for hypotheticality, etc. It is based on the premise that it is important to raise both teachers' and learners' awareness of the rhetorical practices of the disciplinary/professional communities in which they operate. Thus, analysis of economics texts to find out the rhetorical devices used in the particular discipline of economics can make students more aware of these devices and thereby help them understand economics texts better.After pointing out that the detected rhetorical devices are all effective rhetorical devices and serve different rhetorical functions in the present research subject, this paper also illustrates the pedagogical implications for such a study from three aspects: EE (English for Economics) teaching material selecting; EE writing; and EE translating. |
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