《杀手》是海明威的经典之作,描写了两名杀手在芝加哥一家餐馆伺机杀人未遂的故事。文章以其几乎纯口语化的用词、简洁的对话而营造了紧张、恐怖的气氛。非语言交际因素,诸如体态语、客体语、环境语等,在人物语言的缝隙中恰到好处的存在并对故事的发展起到不可替代的作用。 “Killer” is Hemingway’s classic, describing the story of two killers attempting murder in a restaurant in Chicago. The article creates a tense and horrible atmosphere with almost purely spoken words and concise dialogues. Nonverbal communicative factors, such as body language, object language, environment language and so on, exist exactly in the gap between characters and play an irreplaceable role in the development of the story.