ABSTRACT Recent investigations of the communicative challenges posed by mental illness offer opportunities for exploring how tacit philosophies of communication and ontologies inform how sufferers of depression frame their experience as a lack in the ability to communicate meaningfully with others. I read William Styron’s memoir about depression as a response to what rhetorical scholars call rhetorical disability to help facilitate insights into tacit philosophies of communication in the text that become explicit as Styron narrates breakdowns in the signifying power of language. A tone of rhetorical dissociation characterizes his memoir as he employs both biomedical diagnostic discourses to make sense of his immediate existential situation as well as figurative and metaphorical passages to convey these extraverbal experiences to nondisordered audiences. This rhetorical style reveals a parallel tension between representational and constitutive views of language within communicative praxis. Exploring how Styron narrates his inability to communicate his experience to others as a moment of rupture in communicative praxis helps illuminate interconnections between moods, ontology, and communicative praxis more generally.

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呈现在黑暗中：威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron）的《黑暗》（Darkness Visible）中的默契交流哲学：疯狂回忆录

摘要对精神疾病带来的交流挑战的最新研究为探索默契的交流和本体论哲学如何告知抑郁症患者如何缺乏与他人有意义的交流能力的经验提供了机会。我读了威廉·斯泰隆（William Styron）关于抑郁症的回忆录，以回应修辞学者称之为修辞障碍的知识，以帮助促进对文本中隐性交流哲学的见解，随着史泰龙叙述语言象征性力量的崩溃，这一点变得很明显。回忆录的口音是他的回忆录的特征，因为他既运用了生物医学诊断学的话语来理解他当前的生存状况，又运用了比喻性和隐喻性的话语来向无障碍的听众传达这些言外经历。这种修辞风格揭示了交际实践中语言的表征性和构成性观点之间的平行张力。探索斯泰隆如何叙述自己在交流实践破裂时无法与他人交流自己的经历，有助于更全面地阐明情绪，本体论和交流实践之间的相互联系。