小说话语的时间表达系统

On the Time System in Novels

小说话语的时间表达系统是小说语境系统的一个子系统,是作者根据某种需要在时间要素上做出的修辞选择。它是依据作者的创作意图以及故事、事件或现象发生的物理时间顺序,凭借时间表达的某种手段,按照一定的关联方法,把各种不同的时间要素有机地联系在一起建构而成的。它的性能与功效不仅体现在语言学或修辞学范畴之内,更为重要的是还表现在对小说文本叙述结构以及文本之外作品内涵的解读作用上。

Time system is one of the sub-systems of context in novels,which is a rhetoric choice of temporal factors made by the author out of the need of creation and constructed by combing organically all kinds of temporal factors according to the purpose of creation of the author, the physical temporal sequence of the story and event,and certain method of expressing time.The nature and function of the time system are demonstrated not only in linguistics or rhetoric,but also in the narrating structure of the novel and the understanding between the lines.