语象研究四十年回顾与展望

Review and Prospect of Verbal Icon Study over the Past Forty Years

随着语言学转向的逐步深入,“语象”一度成为中国学界的研究热点。这个术语是由西方引入,也是中国文学实践的产物。“语象”概念对中国文学从外部研究走向内部研究有着重要的推动作用,其四十年的发展历程也成为中国文论史不可或缺的组成部分。对语象在我国开创、讨论、拓展、提升等进行历史回顾和展望,不仅有助于更全面地理解语言与文学的关系,而且能够在图像时代的今天更好地将语言与图像结合起来,也有助于语象中国化发展,促进中国特色的语象理论的形成。

With the gradual deepening of linguistic turn,“verbal icon”once became a research hotspot in Chinese academic circles.This term was introduced from the West and was also the product of Chinese literary practice.The concept of“verbal icon”plays a significant role in promoting Chinese literature to march from external study to internal one,and its forty-year development has become an indispensable part of the history of Chinese literary theory.To make a historical review and prospect of verbal icon’s aspects in China,such as creation,discussion,expansion,promotion,is not only conducive to a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between language and literature,but also to a better combination of language and image in the the image age of today,which also contributes to the sinicized development of verbal icon and promotes the formation of verbal icon theory with Chinese characteristics.