试论中西“语言风格”的定义

A Tentative Study of the Definitions of "Style" Home and Abroad

语言风格是古今中西修辞学和文体学研究的核心术语之一,是现代汉语语言风格学研究的基石。古今中外许多学者包括文学批评家、修辞学家、语言学家等等都曾经根据各自的理解从不同的角度给语言风格下过定义,但是,迄今为止没有一个定义是被中西学者广泛接受的。文章旨在通过对古今中西“语言风格”的定义的考查和它们之间异同的比较,探究人们对该术语做出的形形色色定义背后的本质。

Style is the key term in rhetoric and stylistic research home and abroad as well as the basic concept in the contemporary Chinese study of language style.From the long past till now,scholars home and abroad including the literature critics,the rhetoricians,the linguists and so on have ever produced various definitions for "style" from different perspectives according to their own understanding,but none has got unanimous acceptance.This paper intends to figure out the essence of the making of these definitio...