Studying In The Negative Rhetorical Function In Application Genre

Chen Wangdao, the originator of the modern rhetoric, proposed two distinctions of rhetoric,negative rhetoric and positive rhetoric, based on inheriting previous results. Positive rhetoric isspecific experience, and mainly investigates rhetorical skills. The main idea of negative rhetoricis to convey affairs. Negative rhetoric used to science, documents and the other interpretivelanguage because the purpose of these type languages is making sensible, and can not have theslightest ambiguity. In order to tell the affair clearly, we should use the negative rhetoric. Type ofwriting is formed to adapt to different communication purposes, objects, content needs in the areaof language system. Different types of writing have different rhetorical features. This articlefocuses on the role of negative rhetoric in written language, type of writing of official document,science, political commentary and news. Negative rhetoric plays an important role in these typesof writing, and rhetoric studies can not ignore this aspect. This paper undertake studies theadaptability of type of writing and rhetoric. We usually focus on the studies of positive rhetoricand figures of speech, and is not explore negative rhetoric further from the method, function andstructure. This paper cast a brick to attract jade to later scholars who more comprehensive, deeperresearch in the negative rhetorical function in application genre.