The Influence Of Argumentation Situation On Argumentation Style In Mencius And Zhuangzi

In addition to the subjective factors such as Mencius and Zhuangzi’s life,knowledge and personality,and the objective factors such as the environment,object and theme of argumentation,the argumentation behavior in Mencius and Zhuangzi can form their own distinctive argumentation art.The subjective conditions are hard to be proved up to now,and the objective conditions,from the two books of Mencius and Zhuangzi and other argumentation works of the same era,combined with the general law of argumentation behavior,can still be seen that the causes of their own characteristics of argumentation style are greatly affected by the objective factors.First of all,the difference of argumentation style between Mencius and Zhuangzi is influenced by the different argumentation scenes of Mencius and Zhuangzi.The argumentation of Mencius is mainly political scene,so the discourse is solemn and sacred.Zhuangzi has more natural scenes,so the discourse is free and romantic.Secondly,because of the difference of argumentation style between Mencius and Zhuangzi,and also because of the difference of argumentation object,the argumentation object of Mencius is mainly kings,so it mostly adopts the way of asking questions,drawing analogy and circuitous argumentation,and because its argumentation object is fresh characters,its argumentation language has unique vitality;the argumentation object of Zhuangzi is relatively single and fixed,mainly Huizi,Therefore,the way of argumentation thinking and discourse is greatly influenced by Huizi,which may give birth to Zhuangzi’s adoption of allegory.At last,because of the difference of argumentation style between Mencius and Zhuangzi,there are a lot of political factors in the argumentation theme of Mencius,and the argumentation theme is often established by opponents.Therefore,Mencius is forced to transfer the argumentation theme by adopting the methods of "shifting beams and changing pillars" and "focusing on anti guest",which also forces Mencius to strengthen the argumentation training and material accumulation It helps Mencius to use the ability of long composition.The argumentative themes in Zhuangzi are mostly related to Tao and nature,and in the argumentative activities,they are more influenced by the argumentative themes of the famous school.The argumentative themes that Huizi cares about often appear in Zhuangzi,which may be helpful for Zhuangzi’s imagination and argumentative ability.In addition,there are some absent roles in Mencius and Zhuangzi,but Mencius and Zhuangzi still argue with them.For example,the images of Confucius and his disciples in the two books,Huizi in Zhuangzi,etc.Although absent or weakened,these figures still play a different role in promoting the formation of argumentation art in Mencius and Zhuangzi,which should not be ignored.