De Man's point is a question is both rhetorical and grammatical, and the one cannot be reduced to the other. Both readings are available.
德曼想指出的是,一个问句既是修辞型问句又是语法型问句,那么一个不能变成另一个,两种理解都有效。
It must be, after all, a grammaticization of rhetoric," the whole point of which is that the worm of interpretation keeps turning. All right?
那一定是将修辞语法化“,整个观点,诠释的螺丝一直在旋转,对吧?
It doesn't arbitrarily stop anywhere because rhetoric and grammar remain irreducible. We have to keep thinking of them as being uncooperative with each other.
它不会武断地停到任何一个地方,因为修辞和语法是不可削减的,我们必须,一直把它们看成是相互不合作的。
He's saying they're doing great work but they forget this one little thing: you cannot reconcile rhetoric and grammar.
他说的是,他们做得非常好,但是他们忘记了一个小问题,修辞和语法是不可能和解的。
There is this wonderful overarching voice that unifies everything after all. This is what I call," says de Man, "the rhetoricization of grammar, right--but wait!
有这种包罗万象的声音,它把所有东西都联合起来,这就是我所说的“,德曼说,“语法的修辞化,对了,等等!
Edith, a reader of sublime simplicity, as de Man says, misinterprets the rhetorical question as a grammatical question: "What is the difference? I'm curious to know."
而依迪斯一个极端天真的读者,正如德曼所说,错误地将这个修辞问句理解成一个语法型问句:,“区别在哪里呢,我想知道“
Right? That would be an entirely different matter, wouldn't it, because you would have absolutely no idea whether the question was rhetorical or grammatical, right?
对吧,那将会是一个完全不同的情况,难道不是吗,因为你就会完全不知道,这个问句是修辞型的还是语法型的,对吧?
He makes a perfectly plausible argument to the effect that the question is grammatical rather than rhetorical.
他提出了一个貌似非常可信的论据,大意是说这个问句是语法型的,而不是修辞型的。
They cannot be reconciled as traditional students of the relationship between rhetoric and grammar in studying the rhetorical and grammatical effects of literature take for granted.
它们不可能和解,像传统的修辞学与语法学关系的学生,在研究修辞学和语法学对文学的影响之时想当然地做的那样。
Notice that the relationship between the rhetorical is and the grammatical is is basically the relationship between what Jakobson calls the "poetic function" and the "metalingual function."
注意下,修辞学上的is和语法中的is之间的关系,基本上就是雅各布森所说的,“诗功能“和“元语言功能“之间的关系“
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