美国当代黑人女作家艾丽丝·沃克的长篇书信体小说《紫色》运用了两种截然不同的语言。茜莉所写的七十封信中 ,无论黑人和白人都说美国南方黑人乡村口语 ;茜莉的妹妹聂蒂的信中 ,黑人白人都说美国标准语。这种统一对比的语言策略 ,形象地表明黑人英语与白人英语的不同与相同 ,隐喻黑人与白人种族上的相同与平等 ,充分体现了作者的民族意识。 The novel, “Purple,” a long letter from the American contemporary black woman Alice Walker, uses two completely different languages. Of Seventy’s letters written by Sherry, both blacks and whites said the southern English speaking village of the United States; and Sissy’s sister Nedi’s letter, black whites spoke American Standard. This unified and contrastive linguistic strategy vividly shows that the differences and similarities between black English and white English, metaphorical equality and equality between black and white ethnic groups fully reflect the author’s national consciousness.