艾米莉·狄金森诗歌语言符号的表情功能

On the Emotive Function of the Linguistic Signs in Emily Dickinson Poetry

狄金森通过对声音和韵律的精心安排,使她的诗歌语言更富新奇感和表现力,更贴近她内心复杂多变的情感。她打破常规的语言形式和限制她思想表达的“过分拘谨的艺术”,赋予普通的语言符号以新的生命活力,使那些原本只有结构或语法功能的符号变得具有情感、思想和形象。她拓展或改变词汇固有的意义,赋予词汇以新的语义特征,使之产生深层意蕴,不仅大大增强了诗歌语言的情感表现力,而且拓展了诗歌的情趣和想像空间,展现了文学语言符号表情功能的无限潜力。

Through her innovative manipulation of linguistic signs, Emily Dickinson deviates from language conventions, adds more aesthetic value to her poetry, and endows more emotional connotation to her poetic language. Her methods of defamiliarization manifest themselves in various levels and show the great potential of linguistic signs in fulfilling emotive function. This article explores the emotive function embodied by the linguistic signs in Emily Dickinson＇s poetry from the phonetic level, structural level, lexical level and metaphysic＇,d level with the aim of helping readers to appreciate the beauty of her poetry from a new perspective.