In past, literature and science were usually divided to two separate domains. Literature was the repository of rhetoric, subjectivity, and fiction. Science was the repository of "plain" language, objectivity, and fact. The "modernist" vision of science writing as "transparent"-simply reflecting, like a clear pane of glass, an objective "reality"-has dominate social scientific thinking. Only recently has this view been seriously challenge.
The purpose of this article is responding to the challenge. All the social sciences have prescribed writing formats-none of them neutral or historically fixed, all of them value-constituting, and all of them narrative choices. By introducing the concepts of narrating subject and time from narratology, we tried answering the question: how should we write in social scientific paper? Finally, we emphases how we are expected to write affects what we can write about.
中文關鍵詞
敘事主體,敘事時間,論文寫作,範式風格
英文關鍵詞
narrating subject,time of narration,social science writing,paradigmatic style