(编者按)对话理论是巴赫金语言哲学的理论支柱,对话性是其超语言学理论的核心。巴赫金对话理论具有深厚的哲学基础和理论渊源,对此人们已有大量论述。然而,关于维尔比的表意学与巴赫金的超语言学之间有何关联,学界鲜有讨论。在本栏目第一篇文章中,王永祥通过分析评论苏珊·佩特瑞丽所著《表意与理解》一书,介绍了一位有着“符号学之母”之称的表意学 (Editor’s Note) Dialogue theory is the theoretical pillar of Bakhtin’s language philosophy, and dialogue is at the core of its theory of super-linguistics. Bakhtin’s Dialogue Theory has a profound philosophical foundation and theoretical origins, to which people have discussed a great deal. However, there is little discussion in the academic circle about the correlation between Vilbi’s metaphorics and Bakhtin’s super linguistics. In the first essay in this section, Wang Yongxiang introduced a book entitled “Expressionism and Comprehension” by Susan Petriore,