Synesthesia,transformation and synthesis: toward a multi-sensory pedagogy of the image

Clinical synesthesia is commonly defined as the experience of having perceptions in one sensory modality triggered by a stimulus from another. This paper adopts a particular orientation toward synesthesia, exploring it as a cultural phenomenon common to us all, as an ability that can be learnt instead of an accidental neurological condition. If synesthesia is both a capacity that we are not fully aware of and a way to access what is stored in memory even at the unconscious level, can art help us to bring this awareness back? Bearing upon a close reading of selected artworks created by Johannes Deutsch, a multi-media artist who has been experimenting with synesthesia, the paper argues that synesthesia can become a tool in the hands of contemporary artists to revitalize the Wagnerian ideal of a “total work of art”. This is to be understood as a politics of the senses based on communality rather than individualism, not as an ideology of totalitarian tendencies. Ultimately, the transformative potential of certain art resides in its capacity to foster a pedagogy of the image that is based upon multi-sensoriality, memory and history.     

概念整合理论与移就辞格

本文简单地介绍了一种新的语义构建的认知理论,即概念整合理论以及心理空间,复合空间,现时,层现结构等概念,并从移就定义出发,论证了概念整合理论对于通感、移情、转类等移就的三种形态都具有阐释能力.     

通感的认知语言学阐释

通感基于人类共同的生理机制,既是一种心理现象,又是一种语言现象。本文从认知语言学的视角切入,运用Lakoff&Johnson的概念隐喻理论和Fauconnier&Turner的概念整合理论,详细分析和阐释了英、日、汉语中的通感现象,并进一步指出这两种理论具有很强的互补性,从而帮助读者更好地解读人类语言中的通感现象。