《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

Abstract

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。

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.