The development of uses of reader (third-person and vocative) are investigated in the Corpus of Late Modern English Text (1710-1920) with regard to frequencies and functions. Overall, reader declines, indicating a shift away from nominal and more formal style. Third-person uses are more common than vocatives, which cluster especially in the early nineteenth century and in emotive, personalized texts. A functional analysis is carried out on treatises and narrative fiction. Readers are positioned and (dis)aligned with the writer through the use of possessive pronouns, quantifiers and adjectives in contrast to bare unmodified uses. Reader occurrences may be explained as metadiscourse (Hyland, 2005) or intersubjective uses. They involve the reader in responsive thought or action with the text and steer them towards interpretations. They are also integrated into emotive and attitudinal contexts, in which overt attention is given to the face needs of the reader.

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文本中跨越时间和流派的读者


在晚期现代英语文本语料库 （1710-1920） 中研究了 reader （第三人称和呼唤） 用法的发展，涉及频率和功能。总体而言，读者人数下降，表明人们从名义上的风格转向了更正式的风格。第三人称使用比呼语更常见，呼语尤其集中在 19 世纪初和情感化、个性化的文本中。对论文和叙事小说进行了功能分析。通过使用所有格代词、量词和形容词，读者与作者的位置和（不）对齐，这与赤裸裸的未经修饰的用法形成鲜明对比。读者的出现可以解释为元话语 （Hyland， 2005） 或主体间使用。它们让读者参与对文本的回应性思考或行动，并引导他们进行解释。它们也被整合到情感和态度的语境中，其中公开关注读者的面部需求。