元语用视角下薛宝钗话语的受话人意识

On Addressee-Oriented Awareness in Xue Baochai’s Metadiscourse

受话人元话语是元话语的一种表征形式,体现了说话人(作者)对于交际中的对方或者他人的存在的元语用意识。采用元语用视角,以陈新仁(2020)基于元语用的元话语新拟为分析框架,聚焦《红楼梦》中薛宝钗所使用的受话人元话语,旨在揭示隐藏在受话人元话语背后的元语用意识。研究结果显示,薛宝钗的受话人元话语,凸显了其在交际中的三种受话人意识。这为从元语用视角分析文学作品中的人物形象塑造提供了参考。

Addressee-oriented metadiscourse,one representation form of metadiscourse,can reflect the speaker’s (author’s) metapragmatic awareness for the presence of the addressee.Taking Xue Baochai’s addressee metadiscourse in The Dream of Red Mansion as the research data,this article tries to examine,based on a new taxonomy of the metadiscourse proposed by Chen Xinren,the addressee-oriented metapragmatic awareness reflected by Xue Baochai’s addressee-oriented metadiscourse.The findings indicate that Xue Baochai’s addressee-oriented metadiscourse can highlight three types of addressee-oriented metapragmatic awareness.The study may shed some light on the metapragmatic analysis of literary characterization for future research.