东巴仪式表演的文本结构探析

Analysis of the Text Structure of Dongba Ritual Performance

仪式也是文本,东巴仪式表演文本是以口头演述与仪式表演互为文本的。平行结构是东巴口头传统中较为常见的一种句法结构,而在与东巴口头传统演述相结合的仪式表演中也同样存在着这一句法结构。从东巴仪式表演类型分析,其结构可分为以下并列平行式与递进平行式。在东巴仪式表演中,表演类型有着严整的结构单元,这些结构单元从最小的表演动作到表演步骤、表演程序、表演类别形成了金字塔式结构,同时也构成了各种仪式类型及表演类型。

Dongba ritual performance which consists of oral performance and ritual performance is also a kind of text. Parallel structure is a common syntactic structure in traditional Dongba oral performance, and the structure also exists in Dongba ritual performance which contains oral performance. Based on analysis of the types of Dongba ritual performance, its structures can be divided into juxtaposition parallel structure and progressive parallel structure. In Dongba ritual performance, each performance type has rigid structural units ranging from the smallest action to performing steps and procedure, up to a general type of ritual or perform- ance, which forms a pyramid structure.