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Figure 2.1A new typology of fictive questions 33

Figure 3.1Schematic representation of integration networks 40

Figure 3.2A simplex integration network 42

Figure 3.3A mirror network 43

Figure 3.4A single-scope integration network 44

Figure 3.5Writer–reader interactional network in the Zhuangzi text 52

Figure 4.1Distribution of expository questions in the sections of the Zhuangzi text 55

Figure 4.2Writer–reader interactional network in the Here-and-Now space 61

Figure 4.3Shaman Xian as spokesman of Zhuangzi 65

Figure 4.4Lin Hui as spokesman of Zhuangzi 72

Figure 4.5Distribution of the subtypes of expository questions in the Zhuangzi text 77

Figure 5.1Distribution of rhetorical questions in the sections of the Zhuangzi text 82

Figure 5.2Writer–reader interactional network in the Here-and-Now space 88

Figure 5.3The border guard Hua as spokesman of Zhuangzi 91

Figure 6.1A simulation-based rhetorical model of self-persuasion 112