The Social Agency of Verbal Art : How Far Can A Systemic Approach Usefully Go in Modelling the Context of Creation?

摘要

@@ Stylistic argumentation proceeds by systematizing the sampling of texts, by making textual comparisons, and by establishing statistical generalizations.Analyses of style( and of variation more generally) further require that a systematic method becomes increasingly " systemic" -only by mapping out the paradigms of selection available in particular acts of meaning making can we argue for the "value" of a given selection ( namely, its degree of markedness; its relation to a pattem of similar choices; or its apparent contrast to a set of choices which may be, paradoxically, of similar value in this particular instance of text).Humans, as cultural "performers" ( as social artists) , range across many modes of meaning as they enact their social memberships.But we can ask ourselves: what of the social contexts of conventional modes of interaction can be brought to bear in the systemic analysis of verbal art ?