“起承转合”之起承转合——对比修辞视阈下汉语篇章模式研究

A Critical Review of“qi-cheng-zhuan-he”within the Field of Contrastive Rhetoric

本研究系统梳理了对比修辞领域内对汉语基本篇章模式"起承转合"的研究,发现学界内对"起承转合"结构的认知本身也呈现了起承转合式的发展脉络,即从最初西方学者眼中的"异类"并对中国学生英语写作产生负面影响到与英语最小篇章模式的异形同构。最后,为了更加系统地进行英汉篇章模式对比研究,作者指出基于自建小型语料库和不同体裁的研究是必要的。

This paper systematically reviews the studies of'qi-cheng-zhuan-he'within the field of contrastive rhetoric,finding that the insights so far obtained have experienced a spiral progression.The typical Chinese textual pattern was initially rejected by western scholars as being dramatically different from'directness'in English,thus having negatively affected the English writing of Chinese students.However,as more recent research findings indicate,'qi-cheng-zhuan-he'has been found to be similar to the deep structure of problem-solution pattern in English.Finally,it is pointed out that description of the pattern based on self-built corpus and across genres is necessary before systematic contrastive study is conducted.