术语“类型学方法”的详细信息

英译术语:

typological method

汉语语境:

民间文学研究中的母题方法，是中国古代神话研究中应该积极借鉴的方法。由于中国古代神话文本依赖于文献载录并且传承的特性，中国神话较为天然地显现为一些最小基本单位的组合。这些最小的基本单位，从总体而言，往往既可以作为单独的故事或单元在神话文本中独立传承，亦可以在不同的神话中被交换并显示不同的功能特性。因此，使用母题概念作为研究视角，能够较好地解构中国神话，并深度挖掘其历史、文化及思想内涵。

英语语境:

The motif theory, for the sake of its classic, flexibility and maneuverability, becomes one of the most important part of typological methods. Motif classification method was widely used in the Chinese folktale studies. There were also many achievements on motif classification such as Zhong Jingwen, Wolfram Eberhard and Ding Naitong's folktale classification index. Motif method in folktale studies should be introduced into mythological studies. For the characteristics of Chinese written myths, they always appeared to be the combination of the tiny emic units. These tiny emic units, generally, can be transported independently as some single stories or units in the myth texts, as well as interchange in different myths as different function. Thus, using the concept of motif may well explain Chinese myths, and discover their historical and cultural implements.