Preface 1
Acknowledgements 1
Introduction 1
0.1 The State of Affairs of ESL/EFL Writing 1
0.1.1 The Definitions of ESL/EFL Writing 1
0.1.2 Background to This Research 2
0.1.3 Studies in Europe and America 4
0.1.4 Studies in China 10
0.2 Summary 16
0.3 The Problems of ESL/EFL Composition Studies 18
0.4 Objectives and Research Questions of This Study 19
0.5 Methodology and Significance of This Study 20
0.6 Outline of This Book 22
Chapter 1 The Nature and Development of Semiotics 24
1.1 The Nature of Semiotics 24
1.2 Research by Western Scholar s 25
1.3 Research by Chinese Scholars 32
1.3.1 Studies of Linguistic Semiotics 33
1.3.2 The Application of Studies of Semiotics 35
1.4 Summary 37
Chapter 2 Different Semiotic Schools and Key Semiotic Concepts 40
2.1 Structural Semiotics and Key Concepts 40
2.1.1 Signifier and Signified 42
2.1.2 Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations 44
2.2 Interpretative Semiotics and Some Key Concepts 46
2.2.1 Semiosis 47
2.2.2 Sign,Object and Interpretant 48
2.2.3 Indexical,Iconic and Symbolic Signs 49
2.3 Social Semiotics and Some Key Concepts 51
2.3.1 Code,Encode and Decode 53
2.3.2 Mode of Locating a Text 55
2.4 Cultural Semiotics and Some Key Concepts 57
2.4.1 Connotation,Denotation and Myth 58
2.4.2 Semiosphere 60
2.5 Summary 61
Chapter 3 Semiotics,Rhetoric and Composition-Rhetoric 66
3.1 Semiotics and Language 66
3.2 Semiotics and Rhetoric 69
3.2.1 The Triangle of Rhetoric 70
3.2.2 The Relationship Between Semiotics and Rhetoric 71
3.3 Semiotics and Composition-Rhetoric 73
3.3.1 The Basic Elements of Classical Rhetoric 74
3.3.2 Composition-Rhetoric and Multimodality 80
3.3.3 Interdisciplinary Composition-Rhetoric 84
3.4 Summary 86
Chapter 4 Codes and Composition-Rhetoric 88
4.1 Code and Sign 88
4.2 Kinds of Code 89
4.3 Code and Text 90
4.4 Codes in Composition-Rhetoric 91
4.4.1 Context 91
4.4.2 Rhetorical Situation 93
4.4.3 Strategies for Writing 96
4.4.4 Textual Structures 97
4.4.5 Text Features 100
4.4.6 Figurative Language 101
4.4.7 Punctuation 104
4.4.8 Markers 107
4.4.9 Register and Genre 109
4.4.10 Style 111
4.5 Summary 114
Chapter 5 Semiotics,Rhetoric and Text 117
5.1 Sign and Text 117
5.2 Rhetoric and Text 119
5.3 Semiotic Interpretation of Text 120
5.4 Semiotic Construction of Text 122
5.5 The Intersemiotic Interaction of Text 124
5.5.1 Interaction of Signs within Text 125
5.5.2 Interaction of Signs with Other Texts 126
5.5.3 Text as a Network of Semiotic Relationships 131
5.6 Summary 141
Chapter 6 The Semiotic Analysis of Composition-Rhetoric 143
6.1 Syntactic Realtions 144
6.1.1 The Three Basic Levels of Composition-Rhetoric 144
6.1.2 Cohesion and Coherence 144
6.1.3 Rhetorical Structure 158
6.2 Semantic Relations 161
6.2.1 Word Meanings 162
6.2.2 Sentence Meanings 165
6.2.3 Textual Meanings 167
6.3 Pragmatic Relations 170
6.3.1 Pragmatics and Text 170
6.3.2 Pragmatics and Rhetoric 172
6.3.3 Pragmatic and Sign Process 173
6.4 Summary 175
Chapter 7 Cultural Semiotic Analysis of Composition-Rhetoric 177
7.1 Culture and Semiotics 177
7.2 Culture and Rhetoric 179
7.3 Intercultural Composition-Rhetoric 183
7.4 Intercultural ESL/EFLWriting 185
7.4.1 Aspects of Intercultural Analysis 188
7.5 Summary 211
Conclusion 214
Works Cited 222