The aim of this paper is to take a close look at John McGahern’s mind style through the language of the heroine Elizabeth Reegan and other characters, in his 1963 novel The Barracks . Specifically, attention will be drawn to how the linguistic choices shape the figurative language to cast the author’s controversial views on the religion-pervaded puritan Irish society that he knew so well. This will be done from two different perspectives. One perspective is through the breast cancer afflicted heroine, who asserts herself as a free thinker and a woman of science, in a society where priests have a strong influence at all social levels, and most women settle for housekeeping. The other is also through Elizabeth, together with other minor characters, who dare question some of the basic well-established ideological assumptions, in a series of examples where the author skilfully raises two parallel dichotomies, namely, FAITH versus REASON, and DARKNESS versus LIGHT. At a linguistic level, the present analysis relies on precepts from Frame Semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cognitive Grammar. These insights prove a most useful method of approach to a narrative text while unearthing the author’s ideological world view.

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《兵营》中的世界切换和思维方式：意识形态的认知方法

本文的目的是通过女主角伊丽莎白·里根（Elizabeth Reegan）和其他角色在1963年的小说《军营》中的语言来近距离了解约翰·麦加希恩的思想风格。具体来说，将引起注意的是语言选择如何塑造比喻性语言，从而使作者对他所熟知的宗教遍及的清教徒爱尔兰社会产生了有争议的观点。这将从两个不同的角度进行。一个观点是，患乳腺癌的女主人公在一个牧师在各个社会阶层都有强大影响力的社会中，自称是自由思想家和科学女性，而女主人公自称是自由思想家和科学女性，而大多数妇女则定居家政。另一个人也是伊丽莎白（Elizabeth）和其他一些次要人物一起提出的，他们敢于质疑一些公认的基本意识形态假设，在一系列例子中，作者巧妙地提出了两个平行的二分法，分别是信念与理性，黑暗与光明。在语言层面上，本分析依赖于框架语义学，概念隐喻理论和认知语法的戒律。这些见解证明了发掘作者的意识形态世界观时叙述叙事文本的一种最有用的方法。