关键词: 小说; 语篇; 伏应; 高层转喻; 认知机制

Abstract: As a discourse-texture indicator pervasive in languages, the foreshadowing-echoing plays a crucial role in both cohesion and coherence in the construction of discourses, and it also helps readers to have a better understanding of the textures of discourses. The co-authors of the present paper make an attempt to probe into the cognitive mechanism of foreshadowing-echoing in novels from the perspective of conceptual metonymy, especially from that of high-level metonymy. To take Lu Xun’s novels as an example, it shows that there are various corresponding counterparts between foreshadowing and echoing in different contexts in novels. However, it is also found that there exist delicate shades of cause-effect differences among three types of foreshadowing-echoing in Lun Xun’s works. As for one foreshadowing for one echoing or one foreshadowing for multiple-echoing, the echoing is taken as the cause while foreshadowing as the effect. On the other hand, concerning multiple-foreshadowing for one echoing, the foreshadowing is treated as the cause while the echoing as the effect. Based on the present research, it is obvious that the frequent use of foreshadowing-echoing in texts undoubtedly enhances both the writing art and the literary thoughts in Lu Xun’s works. Thus, it is concluded by claiming that our research is of some implication to cognitive linguistics, translation studies and foreign language teaching and research in China.

Keywords: novel; text; foreshadowing-echoing; high-level metonymy; cognitive mechanism