摘要
经典范畴理论对20世纪的语言学研究产生了深刻的影响。当代认知语言学的原型范畴理论对经典范畴理论提出了挑战，两种范畴观的主要分歧之一便是范畴是否有明晰的边界，经典范畴观认为范畴具有明晰的边界，而原型范畴观则主张边界的模糊性。本文通过对词义的具体分析得出结论：原性范畴理论并没有超越经典范理论，充分必要条件决定范畴及范畴成员之间的边界，而这一边界是明晰。这一结论在符号学和语言哲学等相关领域皆可得到证明。
The classical category has greatly influenced the linguistic research in the 20th century, but the modem cognitive linguistics poses a challenge to the classic category theory with its prototype theory. The main controversy between the classical and the prototype category theories is whether there is a clear bounderline between two categories or category menbers. The classical category theory acknowledges the clarity or discreteness of bounderline, but the prototype category theory says no. This paper attempts to show through analysis of linguistic evidence that the prototypical category fails to exceed the classical one, that the category is determined by sufficient ＆ necessary conditions, and that the bounderline is clear. All of these can get proved in semiology and philosophy.
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第8期23-26,共4页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
关键词
范畴
边界
清晰性
家族相似性
category
bounderline
clarity,family resemblance
