术语“口头文学”的详细信息

英译术语:

oral literature

汉语语境:

西方对口头文学理论的研究已有200多年历史，研究范式从以“文本“为中心转向以“表演“为中心，理论触角逐步深入到口头文学的本质规律与特征层面；我国的口头文学研究偏重资料的搜集与整理，理论建设方面还没有形成体系，案例分析大多借鉴西方的理论和方法。鉴于这一研究领域在国内学术界还没有引起充分重视，本文梳理和比较了中、西口头文学的定义和研究范式，探讨了口头文学研究的特征和趋势，寻找双方可资借鉴、融通之处，以促进口头文学研究的进一步发展。

英语语境:

Western oral literature studies have enjoyed a history of more than 200 years.With a shifting paradigm from “text-focused“ to “performance-focused“, it began to explore oral literature's nature of the law and features.Meanwhile, Chinese oral literature studies focused on the gathering and listing of data.In the absence of its own theoretical system, most case studies borrowed western theories and methods.Due to the fact that oral literature studies hasn't been paid enough attentions in China, the paper makes a comparative review on Western and Chinese oral literature studies to find out a merging point for both sides to promote its further development.