Abstract In this article, I examine tactile metaphors for voice in the work of Herta Müller. I use conceptual metaphor theory and consider the process of multisensory perception to argue that tactile metaphors can activate multiple senses. Müller evokes tactile experience to reason about voice in her works. These seemingly modality-specific metaphors relate voice to more than one sensory impression. While multisensory perception enables the author to associate her characters’ voices creatively with different sensory phenomena, it simultaneously problematizes scholarly efforts to analyze metaphorical language and categorize figurative associations according to sensory modalities. In her literary works, tactile metaphors for voice appear well-established and even conventional, but Müller defamiliarizes them and foregrounds a metaphorical reading of tactile language. Since analytical reasoning about metaphors can be problematic because of multisensory perception, Müller’s works can be challenging to interpret as she focuses the reader’s attention on the figurative meaning of language.

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HertaMüller作品中语音的多感官感知和触觉隐喻

摘要在本文中，我研究了HertaMüller作品中的语音触觉隐喻。我使用概念隐喻理论并考虑了多感官知觉的过程，认为触觉隐喻可以激活多种感觉。缪勒（Müller）唤起触觉经验，以推理作品中的声音。这些看似形式特定的隐喻将语音与多个感官印象相关联。多感官感知使作者能够将她的角色的声音创造性地与不同的感官现象相关联，但同时也使学者们难以分析隐喻语言并根据感官模式对图形联想进行分类。在她的文学作品中，声音的触觉隐喻似乎已经确立，甚至是传统的，但穆勒（Müller）对它们进行了诽谤，并提出了对触觉语言的隐喻解读。由于关于隐喻的分析推理可能会因多感官知觉而出现问题，因此在将读者的注意力集中在语言的象征意义上时，米勒的作品可能难以解释。