概念合成理论与《圣经·新约》中寓言比喻的阐释

The Conceptual Blending Theory Applied to Biblical Parables

本文首先介绍和评价Fauconnier,G.&Turner,M.的概念合成理论,回顾西方对《圣经》寓言比喻的解释,进而论述概念合成理论对寓言比喻的理解所起的作用。之后,通过对寓言比喻"好心的撒玛利亚人"的认知分析,得出如下结论:从认知角度对宗教文本进行分析,可避免陷入无关紧要的细枝末节,从而把握文本的主旨。笔者同时指出,鉴于读者概念域的千差万别,对同一文本的释读必定极具开放性,这也正是认知科学的显著特征之一。

Beginning with an introduction to and a critique of the Conceptual Blending Theory （ Fauconnier, G ＆ M. Turner, 1994 ）, and a brief review of the interpretative history of biblical parables, this thesis suggests that the theory in question might prove very helpful for the understanding and interpretation of such parables. By way of testing this observation, the researcher conducts an a- nalysis of a well-known parable found in Luke 10：25 -37. The result is somewhat satisfactory to the effect that a cognitive approach like this one enables readers to grasp the main message of a religious text, preventing them from getting bogged clown in superfluous details. It is also maintained at the end that given the heterogeneous nature of the reading experience attendant upon the vastly different input spaces of readers, the interpretation of a certain text, religious or otherwise, is anything but monolithic or bounded -- a feature shared by the ever-evolving cognitive science.