Social Discourses in Lu Xun''''s Novels
鲁迅小说的社会杂语分析

This paper presents a new interpretation of Lu Xun's novels in the light of Bahkin and Foucault's theories of discourse analysis. The background of Lu Xun's novels generally centers in Luzheng and Weizhuang whose social discourses fall into six levels that reflect the conditions of the corresponding social classes and the relationship among them in the beginning of this century. The discussion focuses on three major discourse classes: the "aphasic" class who were deprived of their own discourse and forced to follow that of another class; the "soliloquy', class who had never learned their own discourse but were compelled to adopt an unusual or "hysterical" discourse; the "bilingual" class who were lost in the tension between the traditonal and an unborn new discourses. Lu Xun's contribution was that he expressed, through his analysis of the diverse discourses, his criticism of the traditional discourse discourse and his apprehension over the social situations for the 1911 revolution.