Bosen Ma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bosen Ma plays a role.
Articles
2022 Who’s speaking for whom? Rhetorical questions as intersubjective mixed viewpoint constructions in an early Daoist text Journal of Historical Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
This paper deals with rhetorically intended questions in the Zhuangzi, a foundational text of Daoism (fourth century bc). Such questions are generally meant to evoke silent answers in the addressee’s mind, thereby involving a fictive type of interaction (Pascual 2006, 2014). We analyse… read more
2020 Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? A cognitive rhetorical analysis of the use of fictive questions in an early Daoist text Language, Culture and Identity – Signs of Life, Silva Sinha, Vera da, Ana Moreno-Núñez and Zhen Tian (eds.), pp. 249–274 | Chapter
This chapter explores the cognitive underpinnings of rhetoric by presenting a case study of the rhetorical use of non-information-seeking questions in the Zhuangzi (4th c. B.C.), a foundational Daoist text. These questions are: expository questions (“Why do I say this? Because…”) and rhetorical… read more