The Verbal image in literature refers to a mental image prompted by language,which exists in the author's creative process and the reader's engagement.Memory serves as the psychological foundation for generating the verbal image,while imagination acts as the psychological process through which the verbal image is formed.The verbal image has achieved true synesthesia,characterized by partiality and transcendence,uniting the singular and the manifold.The literary sign belongs to the rhematic symbolic legisign,the eighth in the ten major categories of sign proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce.According to Pierce's triadic sign,the verbal image,as an interpretant,highlights the"infinite semiosis"of the literary sign.The generation and operation of the verbal image involves a process of"symbolic pregnance"and"abduction."In this sense,the verbal image is of great significance to both literary studies and semiotics.
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