The reader in the text across time and genres

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI:10.1177/09639470251327532

Claudia Claridge

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Abstract

The development of uses of reader (third-person and vocative) are investigated in the Corpus of Late Modern English Text (1710-1920) with regard to frequencies and functions. Overall, reader declines, indicating a shift away from nominal and more formal style. Third-person uses are more common than vocatives, which cluster especially in the early nineteenth century and in emotive, personalized texts. A functional analysis is carried out on treatises and narrative fiction. Readers are positioned and (dis)aligned with the writer through the use of possessive pronouns, quantifiers and adjectives in contrast to bare unmodified uses. Reader occurrences may be explained as metadiscourse (Hyland, 2005) or intersubjective uses. They involve the reader in responsive thought or action with the text and steer them towards interpretations. They are also integrated into emotive and attitudinal contexts, in which overt attention is given to the face needs of the reader.

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读者在文本中跨越时间和体裁

在《晚期现代英语语料库》（1710-1920）中，从频率和功能方面考察了读者（第三人称和呼格）用法的发展。总体而言，“读者群”的数量减少了，这表明人们不再使用名义和更正式的文体。第三人称用法比感叹词更常见，尤其是在19世纪早期和情感、个性化的文本中。对论文和叙事小说进行了功能分析。读者通过使用所有格代词、量词和形容词来定位和（或不）与作者对齐，而不是直接使用未修饰的用法。读者的出现可以解释为元话语（Hyland, 2005）或主体间使用。它们涉及读者对文本的反应性思想或行动，并引导他们进行解释。它们也被整合到情感和态度的语境中，在这种语境中，读者的外在注意力被给予了面对的需要。

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Language and Literature Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.