国外语篇类型研究述评

A Review of the Studies on Discourse Types Abroad

语篇类型在语篇生成、理解和消费方面发挥着重要作用,其研究在国外有着2400多年的历史。通过回顾国外修辞学派、悉尼学派等对语篇类型的研究,发现语篇类型研究有其修辞学渊源,区域性特征明显,跨学科研究突出;研究方法多样,研究维度广泛:既有偏重语篇结构、词汇句法特征的分类研究,又有注重语篇类型社会文化与语境特征的研究;语篇类型教学研究长期备受重视。

Discourse types play an important role in discourse production,comprehension and consumption,the studies of which have been lasted for a long history of more than 2400 years abroad.Schools of the study of discourse types have been reviewed in this paper including rhetoric,the Sydney School,the ESP,etc.The results show that the studies of discourse types are rooted in rhetoric and take outstanding regional and interdisciplinary characteristics,and demonstrate diversities in methodology and research dimensions,among which some lay special stress on the classification of discourse structure and lexical-syntactical features,while others put more emphasis on their social-cultural and contextual characteristics,with the teaching of discourse types being the focus of attention for a long time.