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題名 | 雅典喪禮演說之性質及詮釋=Athenian Funeral Speech: Its Nature and Interpretations |
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作者姓名(中文) | 翁嘉聲; |
作者姓名(外文) | Ueng, Jia-sheng; |
書刊名 | 輔仁歷史學報 |
卷期 | 23 2009.06[民98.06] |
頁次 | 頁1-47 |
分類號 | 811.9 |
語文 | chi |
關鍵詞 | 古代希臘; 雅典; 喪禮演說詞; 修辭; 展示性文類; Ancient Greece; Athens; Epitaphios; Rhetoric; Epideictic; |
中文摘要 | 雅典在每年冬天集體安葬陣亡將士,並選出傑出公民發表喪禮演說,以表對逝者敬意的儀式。這種喪禮演說(epitaphios)一向被歸類為展示性(epideictic)演說文類中,而亞里士多德《修辭學》將這種演說文類定義為是針對一群被動聽觀眾進行讚美或責難的修辭性演說。喪禮演說詞是展示性演說文類最重要的次類別,具有固定架構及主題,高度修辭性,語調為歌功頌德,在處理歷史事實上多所扭曲,在實際上別無用途,被視為是較劣等的文類。因此在學術上一向被忽略,直到N. Loraux出版《雅典的發明》(The Inventions of Athens)才稍有改變,強調喪禮演說詞是雅典人用來創造自我理想形象的最佳文類。然而,希臘文化研究的學者還是常以「實證」的心態來解讀這種演說詞,認為這類演說詞不過是對歷史事實做愛國性的扭曲,以泛希臘主義之名,宣揚雅典帝國主義。這種解讀在學術界雖然仍是主流,但有許多不當之處。本文一方面要繼續Loraux的洞見,但希望更進一步強調喪禮演說詞的修辭及儀式性格,以及所具有之文類特性,來了解它的性質及功用。首先,我們必須尊重雅典人將喪禮演說體制化為公共論述這一事實,認知到它是由雅典人所贊助,由雅典人為雅典人表演,傳達雅典人意識形態的活動,是一種高度自我指涉(self-referential)的文學。因此在歷史還原上,我們必須對喪禮演說詞採取「信賴詮釋學」(hermeneutics of faith),而非大多數學者所接受的「懷疑詮釋學」(hermeneutics of suspicion),並理解喪禮演說的語言是儀式性語言,具有獨特的修辭性格,而非政論或法庭演說的工具性(instrumental)語言,並據之詮釋。展示性演說的文類特徵係構成支配喪禮演說詞的「文法」,強調喪禮演說的集體、共識以及教化性質,這些是透過提出一種「正典化的」愛國歷史以及對生者之告誡來傳達。喪禮演說詞因此明顯表達出城邦價值,塑造公共道德,並鼓勵遵守社會規範,是雅典人組成之市民城邦不可質疑的共同前提,並訓練下一代預備他們進入公共領域的生活,進行在公民大會或法庭等的論述行為。喪禮演說因此本身即是相當重要性的社會行為,也解釋我們何以要將之視為重要的社會儀式。或許也只有如此理解這種演說詞,我們才能了解雅典人何以重視它,並使之成為一項公共論述。 |
英文摘要 | The annual ritual of a public and collective funeral (epitaphia) of the fallen soldiers, with a funeral speech (epitaphios) delivered by an eminent citizen, was typical only of Classical Athens and existed only in the classical period. Epitaphios was categorized in the genre of epideictic orations which, according to Aristotle's Rhetoric, is a virtuoso oration about praise and blame for a passive audience. Epitaphios as a sub-genre of the epideictic was seen as the most important kind of occasional speech, defined with a set topic, rigid structure and high rhetoric in style, tainted by a comprehensive distortion of past history and pointless in practicality. It was thus seen as inferior genre and had much ignored in scholarship until the publication of N. Loraux's The Inventions of Athens in 80s. Loraux interprets epitaphios as the genre par excellence by which the ancient Athenians used to project an ideal self-image of the Athenians. However, the negative readings of this genre remains prevailing and continues to see epitaphios as a patriotic distortion of historical reality, advocating an imperial jingoism that became outdated and difficult to defend as time went by. This reading is very unsatisfactory because it completely neglects the special features of epitaphios and makes it such a barren genre.The present approach is to take the insight of Loraux as a basis but with go further with a stress on the ritual and rhetoric nature of epitaphios. It is, first of all, necessary to contextualize the epitaphios in the ritual occasion of epitaphia, with an understanding that epitaphios as an official discourse was sponsored by the Athenians for the Athenians in an expression of Athenian ideology. It is a highly self-referential genre and adopts a ”rhetoric of orthodoxy,” spoken only to those who are ”in.” Its language is ritualistic and rhetoric, not instrumental, and one therefore has to interpret it accordingly. This demands that one adopt a ”hermeneutics of faith” (instead of ”hermeneutics of suspicion” as in those positivists) to respect its conventions with its apparatus of a ”canonized” history of Athenian past and an explicit exhortation for the living. Epitaphios in this way articulates the values of a community, fabricates the public morality and encourages adherence to social norms as a social common denomination for Athenians and constitutes a preparation for the political life in the polis. This explains why it is necessary to stress it as a social ritual because epitaphios constitutes in its delivery a significant social action by itself. It is only in this way can we understand why Classical Athenians paid such an attention to epitaphios and institutionalized it as an official discourse. |
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