“空间模拟”思想:洛特曼文化符号学的一种独特方法论

“Spatial Modeling”:The Unique Methodology of Yuri Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics

洛特曼及塔尔图—莫斯科符号学派认为,空间是模拟文化的通用语,任何文化模式都可以用空间术语来表达。“空间模拟”机制是人类思维本质特征的反映,是表达特别有效的“世界图景”手段,包含了文化概念中所有的价值范畴。以“空间模拟”为基础构建文化描述的元语言是文化符号学的最独特的方法论之一,洛特曼将之用于地理空间、现实空间、城市空间等,以此描述不同的文化类型及其意义生成。

Yuri Lotman and the Tartu Moscow Semiotic School believe that space is a universal language for modeling reality and that any cultural type can be described in spatial terms.Reflecting the essential characteristics of human thinking,the mechanism of“spatial modeling”is a particularly effective means of expressing“world vision,”which contains all the value categories in cultural concepts.Building a meta-language for cultural description based on spatial modeling is one of the most unique methodologies of cultural semiotics.Lotman applies it to geographical,real and urban spaces to describe different cultural types and the generation of their meaning.