有学者认为,我们现在已经进入读图的时代。但在图像狂欢的今天,有关图像的许多理论问题,特别是图像与语言的关系问题,仍然有待进一步的探讨。近来,湖南师范大学文艺学专业的部分师生围绕这一问题组织了一次讨论,并把讨论的部分内容写成一组笔谈。本刊现将其发表出来,以引起读者对图像和图像理论的注意。 Some scholars think that we have now entered the era of reading pictures. However, in the image carnival today, many theoretical issues concerning images, especially the relationship between images and language, remain to be further explored. Recently, some teachers and students of the Department of Literature and Art of Hunan Normal University organized a discussion around this issue and wrote part of the discussion into a series of written discussions. This issue appears to be published to arouse readers’ attention to image and image theory.