玛格丽特·阿特伍德小说的生态符号学研究

An Eco-semiotic Study of Margaret Atwood’s Novels

符号学是关于意义的研究,生态符号学关注生态小说中意义生成的机制。要厘清生态文本中符号的认识论意义,必然要考证其符号化的表征,重整其构建的理论基础。本文以阿特伍德的小说为文本,从视觉修辞、语义错置和符号改写3个方面分析:视觉修辞既直接展示了生态符号的零度意指关系,也反相位揭示了其中的认识论选择;语义错置使符号偏离其原初语境,实现了指称的再语境化,构成了符号的新范畴和语义网络;符号改写则促成了符号内涵从源文本向目的文本的转换和新旧符号世界元素之间的相互映射,揭示文本中符号蕴含的认知预设。

Semiotics is the study of meaning,and the eco-semiotic focuses on the formation of meaning in eco-literature.To reveal the epistemological significance of signs in eco-literary text,it is necessary to investigate the representation of signalizing and reconstruct its theoretical foundation.This paper analyzes Margaret Atwood’s novels from three aspects such as visual rhetoric,misplacing of meaning and revision of signs.We find that visual rhetoric directly shows the zero signification relation of eco-signs and reveals its epistemological selection.Misplacing of meaning leads signs away from the original context,realizing the re-contextualization of reference and thus constructing new categories and semantic networks of signs.Revision of signs results in the meaning-shift of signs from the original text to the target one as well as the inter-mapping between different elements in the new and old sign worlds,hence uncovering the cognitive presupposition implied in the textual signs.