A Stylistic Study of Quoted Narrative in Jin, Ping Mei

本研究的目的是从语言学和文体学的角度分析《金瓶梅》中的各种引语，包括引语和引语思想，并说明它的发明使晚明白话小说的新文体得以建立。为了实现这一目标，我们在两年的时间里进行了以下工作：首先，我们从《金瓶梅》的三个主要版本、《词话》本、《崇祯》本和《张竹坡》本中选取了广泛的引用叙事的例子。为了更清楚地说明金瓶梅的文体创造，我们还对《清平山堂故事》进行了目录学和文体学的研究。由于《清平山堂故事》是现存最早的嘉靖白话文之一，因此，对《清平山堂故事》中的旧例进行比较研究，应该是理解百年后《金瓶梅》的基本假设。为此，我们做了五次报告，其中包括四次国际会议，报告的主题从文体学的理论研究到清平山堂小说的文献研究都有。此外，我们还在中国最权威的期刊之一《明清小说研究》上发表了一篇文章，并翻译了一部理论著作，Lydia Liu的《翻译国民性：鲁迅与亚瑟史密斯》。在这些理论研究和文献研究的基础上，我们将继续对《金瓶梅》和其他明代白话文进行语言和文体研究。

The goal of this project is to analysis various quoted narratives, both quoted speech and quoted thoughts, used in Jin Ping Mei, from linguistic and stylistic point of view, and to illustrate its invention that enabled the new style of vernacular novels to be established during late-Ming period. In order to achieve the goal, we pursued the following process during the two-year period of this project.Firstly, we picked up broad examples of quoted narratives from the three major editions of Jin Ping Mei, Cihua edition, Chongzhen edition, and Zhang Zhupo edition. In order to illustrate Jin Ping Meis stylistic invention more clearly, we also carried out bibliographical and stylistic research on Qingpingshantang's Stories. As Qingpingshantang's Stories are one of the oldest existing vernacular narratives published in Jiajing era, taking the older examples into comparative consideration should be the essential assumption to understand Jin Ping Mei which appeared a hundred years later.As a result, we made five presentations, including four international conferences, and the topics of presentations vary from theoretical work on stylistics to bibliographical research on Qingpingshantang's Stories. Besides, we published an article on The Journal of Ming-Qing Fiction Studies, one of the most authoritative journals in China, and translated a theoretical work, Lydia Liu's "Translating National Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith". On the basis of these theoretical and bibliographical studies, we will continue to work on linguistic and stylistic research on Jin Ping Mei and other Ming vernacular narratives.