叙事性与非叙事性成分探析——兼析二语学习者独白式话语的叙事性特征

Constituents and Their Role in EFL Learners’ Narratifve Structure

叙事话语的典型特征是叙事成分所包含的有序事件,但非叙事成分对构建叙事话语有其独特的作用.本文分析了二语学习者在测试环境下完成的独白式叙事话语,结果表明,尽管话题的差异会带来叙述方式的不同,但叙事性成分和非叙事性成分之间的区别特性特征没有发生变化.叙事结构成分特征可以用来观测二语学习者信息组织的有序性和信息传递的有效性,从而观测学习者叙事能力的发展水平.

While narrative elements distinguish themselves by relating a series of events in the order in which they took place, non-narrative elements assume their own role in constituting a narrative structure. Analysis of EFL learners＇ monologues in testing context suggests that （ 1 ） topic differences may produce an effect on the style of narrating, but the basic elements remain more or less the same in the narrative structure; （2） the distinctive features of both narrative and non-narrative elements may help to have a better understanding of the learners＇ narrative discourse so that they can be employed to measure EFL learners＇ discourse competence, and their ability to sequence information in particular.