摘要
美国当代作家安妮·普鲁第二部长篇小说《船讯》描写了纽约一个"三流记者"奎尔一生的心路历程,并通过他探讨了当代美国社会中存在的自我认同主题与语言之间的关系问题。36岁的奎尔在早年的生活中充满种种失败,在经历父母双亡、妻子背叛的苦难之后,携女儿和姑妈一起来到祖居地纽芬兰,从此开始了发现自我进而实现自我认同的艰难历程。本文从语言的角度对人物的自我情感与心理构成进行分析,阐明语言在道德与社群意义上在主人公自我认同历程中的重要作用:人类是一种语言的动物,正是通过语言人类才能做出种种价值判断,从而树立自我感;同时,人类的语言也只能在语言共同体中才能存在和得以保持。本文着重从主人公通过道德判断性语言以及社会历史对话两个方面,阐述语言在实现自我认同中所发挥的决定性作用。
Annie Proulx＇s second novel The Shipping News concerns the adventures of Quoyle, a thirty-six-year-old ＂third-rate newspaperman＂ from New York, whose life is a steady stream of failures and pains until he and his small family move to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. The paper aims to elaborate the function of language in constructing Quoyle＇s self in the light of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor＇s theory. Taylor holds that human beings are above all language animals and our sense of self is inherently and fundamentally tied in with language. He also conceives the self as both moral and social being. Therefore the discussion is divided into two sections with each bringing to light how language with moral and dialogical nature determines Quoyle＇s self-identity.
出处
《外国文学研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第4期98-106,共9页
Foreign Literature Studies
关键词
《船讯》
自我
语言
道德
对话
The Shipping News self language morality dialogue
