摘要 

阿加莎·克里斯蒂是著名的英国推理小说家，也是世界推理小说三大宗师之一。她所创作的推理小说在全世界都享有盛名，包括《东方快车谋杀案》、《尼罗河惨案》、《无人生还》等。但大多数学者都认为推理小说只适用于消遣，而不适用于严肃的学术研究，而且也鲜少有人研究《无人生还》这部小说。因此，本文选择《无人生还》为研究对象，从前景化理论角度着手进行研究具有一定的创新性。《无人生还》这部小说中存在许多非标准书写方式以及有意的语法错误，有利于吸引读者的注意力并推动情节发展。本文从前景化理论中语言学与非语言学的层面入手对这本小说进行分析，挖掘这些有违常理之处存在的必要性。总之，通过结合具体案例具体分析，本文让读者更好地了解了《无人生还》这本小说以及前景化这一理论。虽因篇幅有限，只讨论了一部作品，但也为后人研究阿加莎·克里斯蒂的小说提供了一个较新的视角。

关键词：前景化；《无人生还》；文体学；推理小说

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

1.1 Research Background of the Thesis 1

1.2 Structure of the Thesis 1

Chapter 2 Literature Review 3

2.1 A Brief Review of Agatha Christie 3

2.2 A Brief Review of And Then There Were None 3

2.3 Previous Studies on And Then There Were None 4

Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework 5

3.1 The Theory of Foregrounding 5

3.1.1 The Historical Background of Foregrounding 5

3.1.2 The Characteristics of Foregrounding 5

3.2 Previous Studies on Foregrounding 6

3.2.1 Previous Studies on Foregrounding Abroad 6

3.2.2 Previous Studies on Foregrounding at Home 7

Chapter 4 An Analysis of And Then There Were None from the Perspective of Foregrounding Theory 9

4.1 Characterization in And Then There Were None 9

4.2 Deviation at the Linguistic Level 10

4.2.1 Phonological Deviation 10

4.2.2 Graphological Deviation 10

4.2.3 Lexical Deviation 11

4.3 Deviation at the Non-Linguistic Level 12

4.3.1 Text Position 12

4.3.2 The “Unreliable” Narrator 12

Chapter 5 Conclusion 15

5.1 Major Findings 15

5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study 16

References 17

Acknowledgments 19