美国修辞学家肯尼思·伯克的认同观被视为西方当代修辞学中最为核心的理论,其影响堪比亚里士多德的说服理论;然而,他的辞格认同观却至今尚未引起研究者的关注。本文将通过聚焦《动机修辞学》中的代表性篇章来揭示其辞格的认同功能说及所例释的层递格的认同机制,并辅以《四书》中的典型层递警句加以佐证。文章还尝试从格式塔心理学和皮亚杰发生认识论中寻找相关原则对层递的形式认同功能作出合理解释,以补伯克辞格认同理据的缺失。 American rhetorician Kenneth Burke’s conception of identity is regarded as the most central theory in contemporary Western rhetoric, and its influence is comparable to that of Aristotle’s theory of persuasion; however, his rhetorical identity has not yet been seen Aroused the concern of researchers. This dissertation will focus on the representative chapters of Motivation Rhetoric to reveal its identity function of rhetoric and to explain the mechanism of identity recognition of the Metatrader, which is explained by the examples in the “Four Books”. The article also attempts to find out the relevant principles from the Gestalt psychology and Piaget epistemology to reasonably explain the formal identification function of the layers, so as to make up for the lack of justification for the Bourgeois states.