It makes use of some relevant approaches adopted in contrastive rhetoric as its analytical framework, and lays its theoretical basis on the key concepts examined in modern argumentation research.

• 本论文是一项以对比修辞学研究方法为分析框架,以现代论辩研究的主要成果为理论基础所进行的关于英汉论辩语篇修辞特征的跨文化研究。