Approaching the audience:engagement markers in Longinus'On the Sublime

作     者：Yiling Fang Ganlin Zhuang 

作者机构：Soochow UniversitySoochowChina Xianda College of Economics and HumanitiesShanghai International Studies UniversityShanghaiChina 

出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第8卷第3期

页      面：86-105页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：audience audience awareness engagement On the Sublime 

摘      要：Metadiscourse is a significant method in revealing audience awareness,but related studies have been confined to linguistic markers and current writing *** essay aims to enrich metadiscourse engagement in particular with certain rhetorical figures and to investigate audience awareness in a highly acclaimed Roman-era Greek classic:Longinus On the *** from a refined framework of engagement,we find explicit evidence of audience aware-ness as manifested in the author s use of engagement *** have sorted these markers into four types,including reader mentions(apostrophe and pro-nouns),directives(modal verbs and imperatives),questions(erotema and rogatio),and appeals to shared knowledge(emphasizers and comment clauses).We sug-gest that the frequent use of these engagement markers,in particular reader mentions,could be taken as evidence of the author s strong audience awareness and the cueing effect in facilitating *** integration of rhetorical fig-ures into the metadiscourse engagement markers contributes to the audience awareness analysis in a more explicit and comprehensive way.