时  间：4月21日晚上7：30——9:00
地  点：外语楼101
题  目：Beyond Persuasion: A Proposal for an Invitational Rhetoric
主讲人：Dr. Sonja K. Foss
                  Professor
          Department of Communication
          University of Colorado Denver

       In this presentation, Dr. Foss challenges a view of rhetoric as persuasion and proposes an alternative rhetoric that does not seek to change others but to understand them—invitational rhetoric. Based on the feminist principles of equality, immanent value, and self-determination, invitational rhetoric constitutes an invitation to the audience to enter the rhetor’s world and to see it as the rhetor does. Dr. Foss explains the two primary rhetorical forms involved in invitational rhetoric—offering and the creation of external conditions—and provides some examples of invitational rhetoric. She concludes by situating invitational rhetoric in a rhetorical continuum that provides rhetors with a number of diverse rhetorical tools.

 福斯教授简介:
    福斯（Sonja K. Foss，1950—），当代美国著名修辞学研究专家，美国女性主义修辞研究的代表人物之一，“邀请修辞”理论的提出者。科罗拉多大学传播系前系主任，现为科罗拉多大学研究教授，博导。福斯教授主要从事修辞学理论、修辞批评和女性主义研究，曾出版学术专著9部，发表论文120余篇，3次获得修辞与传播研究年度突出贡献奖。其代表作包括《当代修辞观》、《修辞批评探索与实践》、《女性修辞理论》、《当代修辞理论读本》、《女性修辞理论读本》等是美国修辞学与传播学界的必读书目。