及物性系统与深层象征意义——休斯《在路上》的文体分析

Transitivity and hidden symbolic significance: Langston Hughes' “On the Road”,

文体学之所以长期以来遭到不少文学批评家的攻击和排斥,一个重要的原因在于其“循环性”。本文指出,这种“循环性”并非文体学研究的内在特点,而是与文体学家的阐释目的直接相关。若要增强文体学在文学批评中的作用,分析者应致力于通过研究语言特征,揭示易被忽略的深层意义。本文从及物性系统这一角度切入,对兰斯顿·休斯《在路上》的相关文体特征的深层象征意义进行分析。文章指出,以语言特征为依据的文体分析有助于了解隐含作者与真实作者之间的复杂关系。

A significant reason underlying many attacks from literary critics on stylistics is “circularity”. The present study argues that the so-called “circularity” is not an inherent characteristic of stylistics, but a feature arising from many stylisticians' purposes of investigation. In order to make stylistic analysis useful to literary criticism, it is necessary to aim at revealing previously-neglected deeper meanings of the text. This essay forms an attempt to bring to light, mainly by way of transitivity analysis, the deeper symbolic significance of various language features of Hughes' “On the Road”. Through shedding new light on the text, the present study also shows that stylistic analysis is helpful to the understanding of the complex relation between the real author and the implied author.