Discursive Heterogeneity in Chinese Literature A Semiotic Analysis of the Construction of the Narrator and the Narratee

GÁNDARA, LELIA; SARTORI, MARÍA FLORENCIA

Chinese Semiotic Studies

De Gruyter Mouton

Lugar: Nanjing; Año: 2016 vol. 12 p. 577 - 591

2198-9605

In this paper we explore the marks of discursive heterogeneity inliterary works produced in situations of language and culture contact. Weanalyze novels written by contemporary Chinese authors who live outside thePeople?s Republic of China and produce their work in English and French: QiuXiaolong (裘小龙) and Dai Sijie (戴思杰), respectively. We address marks ofheteroglossia and discursive heterogeneity and explore the construction of thenarrator and the narratee in their novels. In order to validate our analysis, wecompare these authors with a Chinese writer who lives and produces his work inChina: Mo Yan?s on his French and Spanish translated novels. Taking intoaccount the discursive strategies deployed and the polyphonic marks, wedemonstrate that Qiu and Dai construct Chinese narrators and Westernnarratees, while Mo Yan constructs Chinese narrators and narratees. In ouranalysis we apply notions of polyphony from Bakhtin and Ducrot, rhetoricconcepts from Olbrecht-Tyteca and Perelman, the notion of discursiveheterogeneity by Authier, and the discursive ethos analysis proposed byMaingueneau.