Relevant Categories and Text-Marking
Indexical Level ➜ Language and Enunciation Characteristics
Linguistic Characteristics
- Classical Chinese
- Vernacular Chinese: “Standard” Guanhua
- Vernacular Chinese: Dialectal
- Mixed Language
Narrative Point of View
- 1st Person Narration
- 3rd Person Narration
- Dialogue
- Inner Monologue
- Reported Speech
- 3rd Person + Dialogue Combination
- Rhetorical Dialogue / Storyteller’s Stock Phrase
- Inserted Verse / Inserted Depiction
Denotational Level (Utterance) ➜ Textual Transformation Micro-strategies
- Verbatim Citation
- Quasi-Citation / Amplified Citation
- Translation / Replacement by (Quasi-)Synonym
- Amplified Translation
- Explanatory Translation / Reformulating
- Divergence
- Addition
- Diverging Addition
- Omission
- Textual Displacement