“沉默”的意义增殖及其内在逻辑  

The Semantic Multiplication of “Silence” and Its Internal Logic

作　　者：任贺贺 Ren Hehe(School of Foreign Languages,Renmin University of China,Beijing,China,10087)

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学外国语学院

出　　处：《当代外国文学》2022年第4期156-163,共8页Contemporary Foreign Literature

基　　金：中国人民大学科学研究基金(中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助)项目(21XNH162)成果。

摘　　要：在西方文论的语境中,沉默具有静默寡言、故抑其词和哑言等形式,它们均指向了声音、语言表现中的滞涩、艰难或缺失。自20世纪中叶起,沉默经历了文论意义上的增殖:沉默先是被归入一种否定性诗学;经由音乐,沉默又被赋予凸显他者的多元主义品格;通过零度写作的想象,沉默成为预示“作者之死”的标志;而沉默中的“不透明性”最终促使其形成一种永恒美学。沉默的意义增殖为理解当代文论中的“语言萎缩”、声音转向和主体消隐提供了独特的思路,也为考察文学如何介入大屠杀等社会问题展示了新途径。In the context of western literary theory, silence has such forms as reticence, apophasis and muteness, which all point to stagnation, diff iculty or lack of voice and language. Since the mid-20th century, silence has experienced semantic multiplication in literary theory. It is classif ied as a negative poetics;through music, silence is endowed with the pluralistic character of highlighting the other;via the imagination of writing degree zero, silence becomes a sign of “the death of the author”;and the “Opaqueness” in silence f inally promotes it to form an aesthetics of eternity. The semantic multiplication of silence provides a unique way to understand the “decline of language”, the turn toward sound and the disappearance of the subject in contemporary literary theory, and reveals a new way to investigate how literature intervenes in the holocaust and social problems.

关 键 词：沉默 沉默的美学 语言生命力 “作者之死” 

分 类 号：I0[文学—文学理论]