“文本世界”(text world)是近年逐渐兴起的认知诗学的一个关键概念。谢菲尔德大学乔安娜·加文斯(Joanna Gavins)博士的新著《文本世界理论入门》(Text World Theory:An Introduction,以下简称《入门》)集中探讨了围绕“文本世界”的种种问题,这本书是对保罗·沃斯(Paul Werth)1999年出版的《文本世界:表征话语中的概念空间》(Text Worlds:Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse)一书的继承和延伸。事实上,加文斯博士本人也充分承认沃斯对自己的影响,她在《入门》的扉页上写道:“纪念保罗·沃斯”。 “Text world ” (text world) is a key concept of cognitive poetics which is gradually rising in recent years. Text World Theory: An Introduction (“Introduction”), by Dr. Joanna Gavins of the University of Sheffield, focuses on various issues surrounding the “textual world” , A book that inherits and extends to Paul Werth’s book “Text Worlds: Representing Conceptual Space in Discourse”, 1999. In fact, Dr. Gavince himself fully acknowledged Voss’s own influence on her, and she wrote on the front page of Getting Started: “Commemorate Paul Worth.”