No other interdisciplinary issue has inspired a greater debate than the pragmatics-rhetoric border. This paper explores the pragmatics-rhetoric boundary issues and the possibility of marrying pragmatics to rhetoric for pragma-rhetoric. It first addresses the twenty ‘puzzles’ or predicaments the past studies of pragmatics and rhetoric have met with. It is held that similarities between the two disciplines make ‘pragma-rhetoric’ possible and their differences serve as the conditions for their inter-complementarity. Then we discuss some misunderstandings about pragma-rhetoric integration. Due to the alikeness of speech acts, pragmatic acts and rhetoric acts, we forward ‘pragma-rhetorical act’ (PRA) for an umbrella term in the emerging ‘pragma-rhetoric’. Finally we formulate the academic tasks and features of the interdiscipline, with a ‘standard paradigm’ and two ‘sub-paradigms’ of pragma-rhetorical research.

没有任何其他跨学科问题引起比实事求是的边界更大的辩论。本文探讨了语用-修辞的边界问题，以及将语用-修辞结合为修辞的可能性。它首先解决了过去对实用主义和修辞学的研究遇到的二十个“难题”或困境。人们认为，这两个学科之间的相似性使“语用修辞学”成为可能，而它们的差异则是它们相互补充的条件。然后，我们讨论了有关语用-修辞整合的一些误解。由于言语行为，语用行为和修辞行为的相似性，我们提出了“语用-修辞行为”（PRA）作为新兴的“修辞修辞法”中的总称。最后，我们用语篇修辞研究的“标准范式”和两个“子范式”来制定跨学科的学术任务和特征。