摘要
本文主张区分“主题”、“主位”、“话题”三个术语 ,主题是句子层面上的语用成分 ,它是一个指称性成分 ,一般是定指的 ,表示旧信息 ,是述题关涉的对象。主题和述题构成句子的语用结构之一———主述结构。主述结构分析应以具体句为对象 ,结合语境进行。论文提出以“是不是”作为划分主题和述题界限的形式标准 。
The paper holds that the topic of an utterance is different from the topic of a discourse or the theme of a message. Topic discussed here is a pragmatic category of an utterance. It is what the comment is going to be about, usually something definite and known. Topic and comment make one of the pragmatic structures of an utterance, i.e. the topic comment structure. The analysis of the topic comment structure of an utterance will be meaningless without reference to its context. The paper also elaborates the formal criterion of “shi bu shi” as the dividing line between the topic and comment and discusses how to put this formal criterion into use.
出处
《语言教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2001年第3期11-17,共7页
Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies
