Keywords:
“Iceberg Style”; “tense”; discourse function
关键词:“冰山风格”;“时”;话语功能
Abstract:
As representative of the “Lost Generation” writers after WWI, Ernest Hemingway is renowned for his concise writing style. This “Iceberg Style” writing is well manifested in his creation of short stories. For years, critical attention has been paid to “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” from all kinds of perspectives but rarely from the perspective of discourse function in semantics, especially from the discourse function of “tense”. Tense in semantics can suggest the speaker’s angle of speaking thus reveal different intentions, which is to seek the seven-eighths of an iceberg hiding below the sea surface so as to fully comprehend and appreciated the author’s real intention of creation.
第一次世界大战后,“迷惘的一代”的代表作家海明威以简练文风著称,其“冰山风格”在他的短篇小说中体现得尤为明显。长期以来,针对《一个干净明亮的地方》与《乞力马扎罗的雪》的评论众多。然而,从语义学的话语功能视角,特别是从“时”的话语功能角度对这两篇小说进行语义分析的研究却相对较少。在语义学范畴内,“时”的概念能够揭示说话者的视角,进而展现话语的多重含义。如同探寻隐藏于水面之下的八分之七的冰山,从“时”的话语功能出发,有助于更为全面、透彻地领悟作者的创作意图。