This article considers the construction of the profilers and criminals in Thomas Harris’ (2013) [1988] novel Silence of the Lambs through the analysis of selected indicative criminal mind-related extracts. The aim is to consider such characters’ construction through analysis of schematic incongruity, conversational power play, language depicting the actual fictional criminal viewpoint and, lastly, psychological profiling language, the style of which has criminal mind style ‘potential’. Schematic incongruity has a role to play in generating impressions of both the normality and abnormality of psychological profilers and the killers they pursue. Serial killers are constructed as not only physically/psychologically ‘abnormal’ but also as ‘abnormals’ amongst other ‘abnormals’ in terms of their conversational patterns, too. Where some criminals’ apparent reluctance, or inability, to accord to conversational norms marks them as uncivilised, killer/profiler Lecter’s mostly conventional conversational politeness marks him out as indirectly mocking the social norms he sometimes chooses to accord to. Where killer Gumb is concerned, profiling language and language depicting his criminal viewpoint draws on metaphors and references to killing being likened to hunting, work and art, suggesting that killing is necessary, commendable and ceremonial, the victims’ mere things to be utilised in a venture that can only be described as worthy. Though Lecter is shown to be ‘born’ into deviant behaviour, and Gumb is suggested to have been ‘made’ into a criminal, the novel undoubtedly suggests connections, similarities even, between both such character types’ extreme criminal behaviour and those wanting to understand ‘criminal minds’ through the profiling practice.

本文考虑了托马斯·哈里斯（2013）[1988]小说《沉默的羔羊》中探查者和罪犯的构造。通过分析选定的与犯罪心理有关的指示性摘录。目的是通过分析示意性不一致，对话能力玩法，描绘实际虚构犯罪观点的语言以及最后具有心理特征语言（其风格具有犯罪心理风格“潜力”）的语言来考虑此类人物的构造。图解上的不一致性在产生对心理分析者及其追求的杀手的正常与异常印象中可以发挥作用。连环杀手不仅在生理/心理上是“异常”，而且在对话方式上也被构造为“异常”。如果某些罪犯明显不愿意或无法遵守对话规范，将他们标记为不文明，杀手/剖析者莱克特大多数时候都是传统的对话礼貌，这标志着他间接嘲笑他有时选择遵循的社会规范。在涉及杀手Gumb的情况下，描述性语言和描述他的犯罪观点的语言借鉴了比喻，并将杀人行为比喻为狩猎，工作和艺术，这表明杀害是必要的，值得称赞的和礼仪性的，受害人仅将其用于家庭活动中。只能说是值得的冒险。尽管Lecter被证明是“天生”于不正当行为的，而Gumb被认为是“被造为”罪犯的，但小说无疑暗示了这两种性格类型的极端犯罪行为与那些想要理解的人之间的联系，相似之处。通过分析实践来“犯罪思想”。