胡紹嘉

Shao-Chia Hu

敘事主體 ； 敘事時間 ； 社會科學寫作 ； 範式風格

narrating subject ； time of narration ； social science writing ； paradigmatic style

本文源於作者對現有學術書寫範式，在描述研究現實的手段上，其有效性和適宜性的充分懷疑。藉由對小說敘事研究中，「敘事主體」與「敘事時間」此兩種文學批評概念的援用，以及關於主體性與時間之敘事意涵的反覆論證和後設演示，本文嘗試將論文書寫由傳統的主∕客分裂的「純描述」幻想，恢復為作者自覺意識的「敘事再現」過程。最終，本文揭示未來人文社會科學寫作的可能途徑與風格內容。

In the past, literature and science were usually divided to two separate domains. Literature was the repository of rhetoric, subjectivity, and fiction, whereas science was the repository of "plain" language, objectivity, and fact. The "modernist" vision of science writing, which was treated as a transparent, clear pane of glass, simply reflecting the objective "reality", has dominated social scientific thinking. Until recently, this view has been seriously challenged. The purpose of this article is to respond to such a challenge. By introducing the concepts of narrating subject and time of narration from narratology, this article tries to answer the following question: how should we write a social scientific paper? At the end of this article, the author delineates how we expect about writing would affect what we write about.