《寻羊冒险记》中的“羊”与隐喻脑文本的建构机制

“Sheep”in Haruki Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase and the Constructing Mechanism of Metaphoric Brain Tex

在文学伦理学批评的脑文本认知结构里,解喻、施喻的过程就是建构隐喻脑文本的过程,均表现出鲜明的伦理特点。在解喻活动中,解喻者运用能指脑概念与所指脑概念,在特定伦理语境中对喻体进行解构与重构以获得隐喻意义。隐喻意义作为解喻的结果在人的大脑中存储下来,形成隐喻脑文本。隐喻脑文本具有指导解喻主体实践的作用。在施喻过程中,施喻者将既有脑概念或脑文本按照隐喻伦理重新组合、编辑和加工,生成隐喻脑文本,继而借助语言或文字等方式表达出来,得到隐喻。施喻是为了向解喻者传递脑文本。在《寻羊冒险记》中,日本作家村上春树通过设置“羊”这一隐喻,从解喻和施喻的角度揭示了隐喻主体建构脑文本的基本伦理原则。

In the cognitive structure of brain text in Ethical Literary Criticism,the process of giving metaphors is also the process of constructing metaphoric brain texts,both of which show distinct ethical characteristics.When interpreting a metaphor,the metaphor addressee uses signifier and signified brain concepts to deconstruct and then reconstruct the vehicle in order to gain the metaphoric meaning in a certain ethical context.Thus,the metaphoric meaning is stored in the human brain as a result of interpreting metaphor,forming metaphoric brain texts,which guide the activities of the subject who interprets the metaphor.When giving metaphor,the metaphor addresser recombines,edits and processes the existing brain texts or brain concepts according to the ethics of metaphor to generate metaphoric brain texts,and then expresses them through language or words to obtain metaphors,with the intention to transmit brain texts to metaphor addressees.By setting up the metaphor of“sheep”in A Wild Sheep Chase,Haruki Murakami reveals the basic ethical principles of the metaphorical subject's construction of brain texts from the both perspectives of receiving and applying metaphors.