测绘学报 ›› 2025, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (1): 165-181.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2025.20240175

• 地图学与地理信息 • 上一篇    

叙事地图的符号体系及叙述机制

苏世亮(), 李子纯, 杜清运, 李千千, 亢孟军, 翁敏   

  1. 武汉大学资源与环境科学学院城市计算与可视化研究室,湖北 武汉 430079
  • 收稿日期:2024-04-25 修回日期:2024-10-29 发布日期:2025-02-17
  • 作者简介:苏世亮(1985—),男,博士,教授,主要从事地理时空建模与地图可视化研究。 E-mail:shiliangsu@whu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    湖北省青年拔尖人才计划(212100006);武汉大学人才启动基金(413100138)

Symbols of narrative maps: compositional structure and working mechanism

Shiliang SU(), Zichun LI, Qingyun DU, Qianqian LI, Mengjun KANG, Min WENG   

  1. Urban Computing and Visualization Lab, School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2024-04-25 Revised:2024-10-29 Published:2025-02-17
  • About author:SU Shiliang (1985—), male, PhD, professor, majors in geocomputation and geovisualization. E-mail: shiliangsu@whu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    The Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province(212100006);The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(413100138)

摘要:

随着地图作为空间实践的重要媒介,广泛并深入地参与到社会建构过程,叙事地图成为当代地图学的重要分支。然而,由于叙事地图与“科学”地图的理论范式和表征机制存在差别,“科学”地图符号的理论与方法体系难以直接应用于叙事地图的研究。针对这一局限性,本研究首先立足于现代符号学的基本理论原理,深入探究叙事地图不同类型符号的视觉变量构成,结合皮尔斯理论对符号语义特征进行详细分析,并从社会符号学视角出发探讨符号互文关系,从语构、语义和语用3个维度构建叙事地图的符号体系。在此基础上,从两方面揭示叙事地图符号体系的叙述机制。一方面,基于结构主义符号学理论,将叙事地图与语言文本进行类比映射,提出叙事地图“文本”的语法规则,深入剖析语法规则创设的释义机制。另一方面,运用社会符号学“语境”理论,对叙事地图中的互文语境、情景语境及文化语境进行清晰的概念界定和内涵阐述,进一步厘清语境对叙事地图释义的规约机制。本研究为推动叙事地图的发展与应用提供了新的理论基础。

关键词: 叙事地图, 符号, 符号学, 语法规则, 叙述机制, 地图学理论

Abstract:

Nowadays, maps as important media for spatial practice have widely and deeply participated in social construction. Under such circumstances, narrative maps have become the academic frontier in contemporary cartography. However, due to the significant differences in theoretical paradigms and representation mechanisms between narrative maps and “scientific” maps, the theoretical and methodological underpinnings for the symbols of “scientific” maps do not suit to work for narrative maps. With an attempt to fill in these gaps, this study first, referring to the basic theoretical principles of modern semiotics, constructs the symbol system for narrative maps from three aspects, namely structure, semantics, and pragmatics. To be specific, we unfold the visual variables of different types of symbols in narrative maps, analyze the semantic characteristics of symbols, and explore the intertextual relationship of symbols. Following, the working mechanism of the symbol system is unraveled in two major points. On the one hand, the grammar rules for narrative map “texts” to aggregate meanings are proposed in reference to the structuralist symbol theory. One the other hand, guided the “context” theory of social semiotics, the regulatory mechanism of context is clarified through highlighting the roles of intertextual context, situational context and cultural context. This paper is believed to provide new theoretical insights into narrative cartography.

Key words: narrative maps, symbols, semiotics, grammar rules, working mechanism, cartography theory

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