语料库文体学研究新思路——以《别让我走》中“黑尔舍姆”的意义建构为例

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2025.04.001

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

语料库文体学通过语言数据统计去发现文学作品的文体风格,却在某种程度上忽略了作家在作品中建构的丰富内涵和意义,而语料库语言学意义研究的文本视角给文学研究提供了新思路,通过文本视角,可以观察到文学作品中隐含的角色关系和情节发展,从而获得一种崭新的解读。Sinclair和Mauranen提出了文本对象和文本事件的概念,从操作层面为解读文学文本的意义提供了具体的方法和路径。“黑尔舍姆”是石黑一雄在小说《别让我走》中建构的故事世界的中心,作家对黑尔舍姆的叙述贯穿整部小说的始终。以往的研究重点批判了黑尔舍姆式的人道主义教育的悖论,并分析其失败背后的原因,却忽视了作家围绕黑尔舍姆所建构的丰富内涵与意义。我们从文本对象和文本事件入手,深入文本内部,充分解读作家在整部小说中围绕黑尔舍姆建构的意义网络,尝试解读作家如何用精细入微的笔触,以黑尔舍姆为中心,创作出人物角色的鲜明个性与灵魂。

关键词: 《别让我走》, 黑尔舍姆, 文本视角, 语料库语言学

Abstract:

By means of quantitatively analyzing language data, corpus stylistics aims to explore the style of literary work. In some degree, however, this kind of study neglects the richness of meaning constructed in the literary work. The textual perspective of meaning analysis in corpus linguistics sheds light on new paths of corpus-based literature study. From the textual perspective, we can observe and analyze relationship of the roles and the line of development hidden in a fiction, and therefore obtain a completely new interpretation of the meaning conveyed in the fiction. Sinclair & Mauranen (2006) proposed the notions of discourse object and discourse incident which can be applied to the interpretation of meaning in literary texts. Hailsham is the center of fictional world constructed in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction Never Let Me Go and the depiction of it runs throughout the whole fiction. The previous studies on Hailsham mainly focus on its humanizing education and the analysis of its failure, neglecting the exquisite subtlety in meaning of Hailsham. This study employs the ideas of discourse object and discourse incident to analyze how Kazuo Ishiguro constructs the semantic network of Hailsham and gives distinctive personality and souls to the characters in spellbinding detail.

Key words: Never Let Me Go, Hailsham, text perspective, corpus linguistics

中图分类号:

甄凤超. 语料库文体学研究新思路——以《别让我走》中“黑尔舍姆”的意义建构为例[J]. 当代外语研究, 2025, 25(4): 3-14.

ZHEN Fengchao. Exploring New Paths in Corpus Stylistics: How does Kazuo Ishiguro Construct the Meaning of Hailsham in Never Let Me Go?[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2025, 25(4): 3-14.

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	文本对象	频数
第一部分	Hailsham	55
	Hailsham student (students)	7
	Hailsham closing	3
	her Hailsham days	1
	old Hailsham people	1
	our old Hailsham crowd	1
	our Hailsham bunch	1
第二部分	Hailsham	57
	Hailsham student (students)	8
	our Hailsham days	1
	Hailsham secret	1
	Hailsham couple	1
	old Hailsham collection	1
第三部分	Hailsham	62
	Hailsham student (students)	4
	Hailsham couple	1
	Hailsham life	1
	Hailsham boundaries	1
	the rest of Hailsham	1
总计			208