从thornburg_panther的言语行为借代理论看言语的借代功能.pdfVIP

2000 年第 4 期 外 国 语 总第 128 期 No 4 , J uly 2000 J ournal of Foreign L anguages General Serial No128 文章编号 : (2000) 　　　中图分类号 : H04 　　　文献标识码 : A 从 Thornburg Panther 的言语行为借代理论 看言语的借代功能 蒋　勇 , 苏晓军 (复旦大学 外文系 , 上海 　200433) ( ) 摘　要: Thornburg Panther 1997 提出间接言语行为可用借代模型来描述。他们的理论可以被提升为 言语的借代功能理论。借代功能理论把代表知识系统的概念结构比喻成网络, 言语信号触动某些网点时, 邻近的网点和连线也受激活。自然言语编码时讲话人以明示的信息激活、借代隐含的概念结构。本文认 为借代理论能从编码和解码方面说明语言符号界面与认知界面的相互作用关系。 关键词: 借代; 间接言语行为; 概念结构; 激活扩散 From Thornburg Panther ’s Speech Act Metonymies to the Metonymic Function of Language J IAN G Yong , SU Xiaojun ( ) Depart ment of Forei gn L anguages , Fudan U niversity , S hanghai 200433 , China Abstract : Thornburg Panther ( 1997) propose that indirect speech acts can be explained by metonymy , in which one speech act stands for another This idea sheds new light on the metonymic function of natural language in communication The mechanism goes in this way : our concepts are framed as networks , which comprise of nodes and links When one of them is triggered off by linguistic signals , it will spread its activation to its neighbor ing nodes Accordingly , one explicit concept can stand for other implicit ones , i e , the addresser can expect to e voke a large number of conceptual structures in the addressee with partial encoding of them in speech contexts We come to the conclusion that language plays a metonymic function in communication This cognitive approach gives a