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Figure 1.Front cover and copyright page of Challenge 10

Figure 2.Front cover and copyright page of Tiaozhan 11

Figure 1.1Cohn’s (1999: 19) taxonomy of four familiar genres21

Figure 1.2Matrix of life-writing21

Figure 1.3Three modes of autobiography (Renza 1977, 1980)23

Figure 1.4Binary oppositions in autobiography29

Figure 1.5Chain of relationship in autobiography (Howarth 1980)35

Figure 2.1A cline of “literariness”42

Figure 2.2The concept of foregrounding (Short 1996: 11)45

Figure 2.3Chain effect of style, foregrounding and defamiliarization46

Figure 2.4A checklist of linguistic and stylistic categories48

Figure 2.5Metafunction of language (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004)49

Figure 2.6Integrated model of stylistic analysis52

Figure 2.7Syntactic contrast in Example (1) 58

Figure 3.1Narrative-communicative situation (Chatman 1978: 151)71

Figure 3.2Level of analysis in the narrative-communicative situation72

Figure 3.3Hypothetical narrative situations in autobiography83

Figure 3.4Narrative device and linguistic indicators of point of view95

Figure 4.1Three constituting consciousnesses and story-telling schemata101

Figure 4.2Deictic shifts in the narrative-communicative situation103

Figure 4.3Cline of speech and thought presentation109

Figure 4.4Narrative-communicative situation in Challenge 133

Figure 5.1Narrative-communicative situation in a translated narrative (Schiavi 1996: 14)136

Figure 6.1Constituting consciousness and the “other” consciousness in a translated narrative168

Figure 6.2Hypothetical narrative situations I and II in a translated autobiography169

Figure 6.3Secret “ironic” message on an unreliable narrator (Chatman 1990: 151)170

Figure 6.4Secret “ironic” message on a fallible filter (Chatman 1990: 151)171

Figure 6.5Narrative-communicative situation in Tiaozhan 203