法国当代空间符号学对城市空间的批判

Criticism of Urban Space:On Contemporary French Semiotics of Space

空间符号学最初的目的是在符号学的框架下用语言学的方法得出空间普遍语法。以格雷马斯为代表的空间符号学家致力于得出空间的深层语法和连接方式,批判了现有城市空间的语言,呼吁在这门语言的工具性之外引入更多美和善的人文关怀。罗兰·巴特关注的是城市空间符号在特定话语中产生的意义,他批判的对象是符号被贫瘠化的过程,因而是对某种意识形态为主导的“元话语”的批判。博德里亚指出当代社会被普遍符号化的现象,并对空间的符号特性提出质疑。

The original purpose of semiotics of space,on the basis of linguistic analysis,was to derive a universal grammar of space within the framework of semiotics.Semioticists represented by Greimas were dedicated to finding the deep grammar and methods of connection of space.They criticize the language of existing urban space and call for the introduction of more loving care,such as beauty and goodwill,rather than the instrumentality of this language.With regard to Roland Barthes,the meaning of urban space symbols in a specific discourse became increasingly the focus.It was the process by which symbols were impoverished that served as the object of criticism,hence a criticism of a“meta⁃discourse”dominated by certain ideology.Moreover,Baudrillard went further by questioning the symbolic representation of space,which is precisely the consequence of the universal symbolization of the contemporary society.