本文以弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫的代表作《到灯塔去》为分析文本，解读其沉默法在作品中的运用和意义。沉默往往被人们消极地看成某种行为（比如语言）或能力的缺失，但在伍尔夫的小说中，无论是在描写人物的内心真实还是在展现人物性格的技巧上，都被赋予了积极的表现意义。那么，伍尔夫为什么采用沉默来刻画人物，揭示意义？她是如何在文本中写出各种不同的沉默形式？作为读者，我们又如何阅读沉默并洞察其表达形式和意义呢？为此，本论文从以下三个方面给与探讨和研究：第一章首先回顾了各个领域对沉默的界定，并以此为理论基础，全面，辩证地分析了不同的沉默形式在伍尔夫作品中的意义和作用。第二章围绕小说《到灯塔去》，就主题意义对伍尔夫的沉默法给以分析和解读。在伍尔夫笔下，沉默不再是软弱缺失的表示，而是蕴含着巨大的力量，是女性特有的自我表达和自我保护的方式，在人们的交流过程中它所传达的内容往往比语言更丰富。同时，伍尔夫作品中不同的沉默形式将人物的个性以全新的面貌展现出来，也标示了她富有现代性的小说观，世界观和性别观。第三章从标点，选词，隐喻，富有韵律的小说结构和语言表达形式等方面对伍尔夫的沉默叙述给与阅读和分析。由此发现沉默叙述是伍尔夫在实现其写“一部沉默小说”的理想过程中所表现出的富有艺术性和创造力的独特写作方法。沉默在伍尔夫的小说中不是以消极被动的形式呈现其面貌，而是以展现心灵和超自然的表现形式积极地向读者传达了它丰富的意义和卓越的表达能力。沉默是伍尔夫揭示真谛，传达情感，表现人性，流露疑虑，揭示无序与混乱的有力工具；沉默也是伍尔夫及其小说人物积蓄智慧，勃发灵感的领地。阅读伍尔夫作品中的不同的沉默形式，实际是读者在积极学习运用新的，创造性的方法参与作者及其作品中人物的思想活动和情感经历。如果我们能够以全面的观点来认识沉默和言词在交流中的意义与作用，那么我们就会对伍尔夫的作品有更深刻的理解；同时，通过阅读伍尔夫的作品，我们能够对沉默和话语这两种不同的表达及交流的形式获得更加全面和辩证的认识。一部实验性的作品需要读者尝试试验性的阅读方法，本文的目的在于通过对《到灯塔去》中各种不同的沉默形式的解读，为读者提供一个新的视角去认识和理解伍尔夫的艺术追求和创作实践。

This thesis is an attempt at reading Virginia Woolf’s writing of silence through her masterpiece To the Lighthouse. Traditionally, silence is regarded as an absence, inaction, emptiness, or inferiority, but it figures in Woolf’s novels as a presence, power, creativity, and superiority, and infused with a new psychic and narrative life. But why does Woolf structure various kinds of silence into her works? What do these silences express in her text? How does she write silence? And finally, how do we read silence in narration? These questions are important to our understanding of Woolf and her works.Chapter One first gives the concept of silence a brief survey based on the position of silence in the integrated theory of communication. Then a general discussion is conducted about the different types of silence commonly figuring in her novels.Chapter Two thematically examines Woolf’s expression of silence based on her masterpiece To the Lighthouse, which possesses the inherent complexities of her many themes. A careful study of Woolf’s thematic and philosophical expression of silence reveals her modernistic ideas about novel, vision of gender, particularly, of women, a worldview, and also her notion of language to express silence.Chapter Three focuses on Woolf’s writing techniques of silence which are her artful achievement in language and form in realizing her ambition of writing “a novel about Silence”. A careful examination of her novels reveals that Woolf has created a “zone of art”—including punctuation, a lexicon, metaphor, and rhythm of silence—which enables her to capture the life of both the surface and the depth, the ineffable and unsayable things.Through her original writing of silence, Woolf compositionally marks a space for readers’ active understanding and invites us into her sentences, novels, and characters’ consciousness in a new way; we have to learn to read her novel from a new perspective.In viewing silence as a presence and value rather than traditional assumptions of silence as an absence of ability and subordination, Woolf infuses the meaning of silence with a new psychic and narrative life. Silence is a constituent part of her narration as she traces the patterns of the mind and its relation to women’s way of knowing and being.Key words: Virginia Woolf, silence, presence, To the Lighthouse, women, woman’s sentence, consciousness, mind.