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The book is devoted to the exploration of the intricate relationships between textual patterns and the logic underpinnings of the verbal realization. The eight-part essays (or eight-legged essays, “Ba Gu” in Chinese), as a case in point, will be elaborated on for its inner connection between the structure and argumentative practices. The book adopted a linguistically informed perspective applied to the study of argumentative practices.

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    Translated by author.

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    http://tsoidug.org/Literary/Crude_House_Simp.pdf.

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    https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ccf0/bd088832a0805c968c455c783b87b365da13.pdf.

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    “义法”一词, 始见于《史记·十二诸侯表序》。“(孔子)兴于鲁而次《春秋》, 上记隐, 下至哀之获麟, 约其辞文, 去其烦重, 以制义法。”方苞取之以论文。他说: “义即《易》之所谓‘言有物’也, 法即《易》之所谓‘言有序’也。义以为经而法纬之, 然后为成体之文。”(《又书货殖传后》)所谓言有物, 指文章的内容; 言有序, 指文章的形式。他的义经法纬之说, 是要求内容和形式相统一。.

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    https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%B5%B7%E6%89%BF%E8%BD%AC%E5%90%88.

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Jin, C. (2020). Introduction. In: Textual Patterns of the Eight-Part Essays and Logic in Ancient Chinese Texts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2337-3_1

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