Od toastu okolicznościowego do przemówienia. Program nauczania retoryki na Pekińskim Uniwersytecie Języków Obcych
From an occasional toast to a speech: Curriculum of rhetoric classes at the University of Beijing

Summary/Abstract: Rhetoric classes within the Polish language and culture specialization in Beijing have a short, merely two year tradition. The classes prepare the students to deliver short and long rhetoric speeches, master persuasion techniques and the body and gesture language. The classes are practical, with the theoretical foundation limited to a historical outline of the Quintilian rhetoric, explaining the inductive function and its two varieties, persuasive and manipulatory, as well as the stylistics. Particularly important part of the course is learning of the topoi and archetypes of the Mediterranean culture by the Chinese students and finding their equivalents or variants in their native culture. In the article, the basic genera of rhetoric were described and hypothetical analysis of a public speech was presented. Furthermore, described were the educational content included in the syllabus and the criteria of evaluation, with particular attention paid to the origin of the rhetoric classes within the Polish language and culture studies in Beijing.

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