A Study On Rhetorical Images Of Fictions In Swordsman

There are two features in a rhetorical image: one is that it refers to a linguistically reconstructed world instead of a real one; the other is that it reconstructs a symbolic reality in human being's psychology. "A rhetorical image" is "a linguistically constructed image".Louise Cha's Swordsman is a typical fiction which contains multiple images. A rhetorical image in a text is a result of communication between an expresser and a recipient.The main image in Swordsman is the underworld which consists of two images—"risky world" and "romantic world". As for the image of "risky world" we stress images of "massacre", "politics" and "hypocrites" while as for the image of "romantic world" we construct groups of images of "free chivalries" and "love". We support it with the cultural elements from the rhetorical images created by poems, wine and songs.This paper studies rhetorical images of fictions in Swordsman as well as expounds the system production of rhetorical images in chivalry fictions. Moreover, this paper re-explains the production mode of images of mainstream in contexts in chivalry fictions and presents specialty and complexity of linguistics in chivalry fictions, which is helpful to the studies of publicity and extensive rhetorical speech.The research methods in this paper emphasize the extension from linguistics to arts, dissemination and aesthetics, from discourse analysis to text analysis, and from linguistic context to non-linguistic context.