基于被引文献计量分析的中国劳伦斯·布依尔研究

The Scholarship of Lawrence Buell in China:an Quantitative Analysis of His Cited Works

美国当代批评家劳伦斯·布依尔一生著述甚丰,其学术成果为我国外国文学教学研究提供了有益的思想借镜。以点带面、以个案指代整体的传统文学研究,未能充分揭示布依尔学术思想跨国传播的真实面貌。在数字人文成为国内外学者关注的新兴学术领域及其影响不断扩大的形势下,本文以中国学者对布依尔文献引用的计量分析为基础,旨在厘清布依尔学术思想中国之旅的路线图,分析布依尔著述的哪些部分受到中国学者的青睐,哪些学人、机构和刊物推动了布依尔的跨国传播,以及布依尔形象在这种跨文化交流中经受了怎样的变异。大数据时代的到来为计量分析介入各门学科提供了前所未有的契机,使文学研究可以在更加科学实证的基础上进行价值判断。

Lawrence Buell is a prolific contemporary American critic,whose research findings provide an enlightening reference for the teaching and research of world literatures in China.However,the traditional reception researches,employing methods of“summarizing the whole by case”,fail to dig out the essence about international dissemination of Buell’s academic thought.Against the backdrop that digital humanities has become a new academic field and its influence is strengthened throughout the world,this essay,based on the quantitative analysis of the cited works by Chinese scholars,attempts to out line the traveling routes of Buell’s academic thought,analyze the favorite parts of his academic thoughts for the Chinese scholars,locate influential scholars institutions and journals for the transnational dissemination of Buell and probe to the distortions of Buell’s image in the cross-cultural communication.Thanks to the advent of big data,the employment of quantitative analysis provides unprecedented opportunities for new research findings of various disciplines,in which the value judgments in literary researches could be based on the more scientific empirical study.