2。1。2 Metalanguage and Narrative Novel

    Feng (2004) believes that narrative discourse in narrative novels not only indicated the narrator’s description but also implied the author’s comment。 The technical device of metalanguage can make stories more realistic and vivid and highlight the characters。 So that the comment will become more objective and the narrator become more “reliable” in minds of readers。 In addition, the description and evaluation of the metalanguage makes the code of language deviates from the overall style of the main narrative discourse so that it will become more prominent in the novel。 Therefore, it is more worthwhile for linguistic study。 His further studies on this issue (2007) demonstrates that the metalanguage plays an important role in the narration and commentary of narrative novels。来~自,优^尔-论;文*网www.youerw.com +QQ752018766-

    In terms of the application of metalanguage in narrative novels, there is a paper which studied on the phenomenon of metalanguage in The Dream of Red Mansions written by Fan (2007)。 The author discussed the marker of metalingual discourse in Chinese classic novels and found that the metalanguage plays an important role in the Dream of Red Mansions。 Using metalingual means to combine narration with comment is a clever way to pides the level of the novel itself and makes the text more effective to tell the story。