《你一生的故事》與《異星入境》中的時間影像與語言：德勒茲觀點

The Time-Image and Language in "Story of Your Life" and Arrival: A Deleuzian Perspective

莊珮立(Pei-Li Chuang)

指導教授 ： 廖勇超

國立臺灣大學/文學院/外國語文學系/碩士(2023年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202300779

摘要

在Ted Chiang的小說《你一生的故事》和其改編電影《異星入境》中， Louise Banks受託解密外星人heptapods的語言，導致她對世界的感知，尤其是對時間的概念進行了重塑。在這篇論文中，我們將從德勒茲的哲學觀點來解釋這一現象，而非多數學者所傾向使用的the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis。總結來說，這篇論文從德勒茲的角度提供了兩個文本全面的文本分析，並探討了語言和時間概念的問題。本論文中使用的德勒茲的哲學思想不僅局限於對duration(綿延)的討論，還包括對語言和一些電影技巧的討論。

關鍵字

德勒茲 ； 語言 ； 時間影像 ； 你一生的故事 ； 異星入境

並列摘要

In the story of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” and its filmic adaptation Arrival, Louise Banks encounters the heptapods and learns Heptapod B, causing a rewiring of her perception of the world, specifically her concept of time. In this thesis, this phenomenon is explained from Deleuze’s philosophical viewpoints instead of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, which is much-quoted in the discussion of the movie. Deleuze’s interpretations of Bergson’s duration suggest a nonlinear conception of time that resembles the time concept of the heptapods, which basically states a situation where the present, the past and the future are all intertwined and entangled in a virtual realm called the past in general. Generally speaking, this thesis provides a comprehensive textual analysis of the two texts and probes into the problem of language and time concept from a Deleuzian perspective. Deleuze’s philosophical thoughts used in this thesis are not limited to the discussion of duration but will also encompass the discussion of language and some filmic techniques.

並列關鍵字

Deleuze ； time-image ； language ； duration ； Bergson ； memory ； the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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