民间故事的情节链:三个隐喻  

Plot Chain of Folktales:Three Metaphors

作　　者：王尧 WANG Yao

机构地区：[1]中国社会科学院大学文学院 [2]中国社会科学院民族文学研究所,北京100732

出　　处：《民俗研究》2024年第5期74-83,159,共11页Folklore Studies

基　　金：中国社会科学院学科建设“登峰战略”资助计划(项目编号:DF2023ZD09);中国社会科学院“青启”计划(项目编号:2024QQJH020)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：情节链由情节单元连缀,是故事在情节层的组合单位,作为一个有机整体被反复移用。一则故事文本可能含有多条情节链,每一条都可发生名词性或动词性成分的变异,从而使故事生成异文。以树林、蚂蚁和彩灯为喻:借助情节单元和情节链,口头传统中的全部故事可以无限关联,生成茂密壮观的故事生命树林。一只蚂蚁可以不断变换选择标准,从第一株故事生命树一路爬行至于最后一株,而不必回到地面。若将情节单元想象为挂在树上的彩色灯泡,情节链就是连缀多个灯泡的长短不一的灯线。将各类情节链分色标示并按需开关,可以观察同一情节链在故事原始丛林中的分布。A plot chain is an orderly connection composed of several plot elements.It is the basic component of the plot of folktales and may be always embedded as an organic unit in a folktale by storytellers.A folktale may include more than one plot chain,each of which contains nominal and verbal composition.Changes may take place on both nominal and verbal composition of each plot chain,thus variants of folktales are produced.Let's take forest,ants and colorful lamps as the metaphors.All the folktales in the oral tradition may be linked with each other,just like trees in a forest.An ant could crawl from the first tree to the last without getting back to the ground.Suppose plot chains be colorful lamps on the trees.If the lamps are marked with different colors and then turn on or turn off,the distribution of different plot chains in the forest can be observed accordingly.

关 键 词：情节单元 情节链 生命树 母题 序列 

分 类 号：I207.7[文学—中国文学]