Overriding Semiosis: The Catastrophe of the Ambrym Eruption of 1913
Overriding Semiosis: The Catastrophe of the Ambrym Eruption of 1913
复制标题
压倒一切的符号论：1913 年 Ambrym 火山喷发的灾难
DOI：
10.1080/00664677.2019.1647827
复制
发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1
通讯作者：
V. Aurora
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Y. Moreau;V. Aurora
1913年瓦努阿图安布里姆岛的火山喷发袭击了当时岛上的居民，岛上的居民和前来教化他们的英国长老会教徒。本文通过皮尔斯符号学的视角，特别是他的“指示符号”的概念，考察了这两个群体分歧的时间发展，以及对喷发作为一种符号的有时的趋同解释。这种符号学分析随后被扩展到该岛的社会历史背景中，从长老会第一次尝试传教到直到20世纪40年代导致岛上人口大量死亡的灾难性动乱，研究这两个群体如何解释自己、彼此、西方基督教和传统的安布里亚信仰和权威体系。
ABSTRACT The 1913 volcanic eruption on the island of Ambrym (Vanuatu) struck both groups composing the island’s population at the time, the Islanders and the British Presbyterians who had come to ‘civilise’ them. Through the lens of Peirce’s semiosis, particularly his notion of the ‘indexical sign’, this article examines the chronological development of the two groups’ divergent, and also at times convergent interpretations of the eruption as a sign. This semiotic analysis is then extended into the island’s socio-historical context, from the Presbyterians’ first attempts at missions to the catastrophic upheaval that decimated the island’s population until the 1940s, to study how the two groups interpreted themselves, each other, Western Christianity and the traditional Ambrymese belief and authority system.