符号学视域下当代民族志与文学比较研究

Comparison between Contemporary Ethnography and Literary Text Based on Semiotics

近年,当代民族志"文学转向"相关讨论呈讹滥之状,致使当代民族志与文学本质差异的澄清迫在眉睫。作为符号文本,二者在表层结构上确已呈现一定的相似性,但深层结构却相当悬殊:前者是实用意义符号文本,后者是艺术意义符号文本。相应地,二者在文本、符号文本的发送与接收、伴随文本等层面都具有深层结构的差异。当代民族志的"文学转向"作为出位之思并不能从根本上解决困扰人类学界半个多世纪的"表述危机"。

Recently, the discussions on the ＂literal-y turn＂ of contemporary ethnography have been abused. So, to clarify the essential differences between contemporary ethnography and literature is urgent. Really the two texts have a certain similarity on the surface structure, but their deep structures are quite different. Contemporary ethnography is the text with practical significance, but literature is the text with art meaning. Accordingly, the two kinds of texts have fundamental differences in the aspects of text, the sending and receiving of the text and accompanying text and so on. The ＂literary turn＂ of contemporary ethnography as a thought of stand out is impossible to fundamentally solve expression crisis which has perplexed the anthropologists more than half a century.