西方修辞学在经历了相对萧条的发展期后,在20世纪初作为一门研究语言和意义的跨学科理论重新崛起。哲学家和文学批评家重新阐释修辞学,以求解决传统有关意义理论所提出来的一系列问题,当代西方修辞学进而在研究范式上呈现出历时性的转型态势。文章首先分析当代西方新修辞学的转型动因,然后重点从结构特征和理论形态两个方面论述其转型态势,试图厘清当代西方新修辞学理论研究格局与范式。 After experiencing a relatively sluggish development period, Western rhetoric emerged again as an interdisciplinary theory of language and meaning in the early 20th century. Philosophers and literary critics reinterpreted rhetoric in an attempt to solve a series of problems raised by the traditional theory of meaning. Contemporary Western rhetoric then presented a diachronic transformation trend in the research paradigm. The article first analyzes the reasons for the transformation of contemporary Western rhetoric and then focuses on its transformation from two aspects of structural features and theoretical forms, trying to clarify the pattern and paradigm of contemporary western rhetorical theories.