《白象似的群山》是篇极短的短篇小说,没有任何冗长的心理及场面的描述,几乎全篇都是对话。作者的技巧就在于以日常的对话形式来揭示不同人物心理面貌。通篇看来,会话修正在人物对话中层出不穷。本文试图通过对小说中会话修正引导策略的研究来分析人物的修正动机,另辟蹊径,为揭示人物关系、心理面貌提供新的理论依据;为读者欣赏小说中的对话提供新的方法。 “White elephants like mountains” is a very short story, without any lengthy psychological and scene description, almost all of the dialogue. The author’s skill lies in revealing the mental outlook of different people in daily conversation. Throughout the conversation, conversational conversations in an interactive dialogue after another. This paper tries to analyze the motivation of the revision of the characters through the study of the guiding strategies of conversational revision in the novel, and provides a new theoretical basis for revealing the relationship between the characters and the psychology. It also provides a new method for readers to appreciate the dialogues in the novel.