摘要
运用认知语法的心理空间、心理接触、搜索域等理论解释英语存在句定指限制及其反例的认知动因。定指限制的实质是在听话者和某一个存在客体的具体例示之间建立起独特性心理接触,从而在说话者和听话者之间达到指称的完全协调。there是一个搜索域,当引入新信息时,无法建立独特性心理接触,故要用非定指修饰成分。但是,如果能满足独特性心理接触和信息的焦点性两个条件,定指修饰成分也是可以接受的。提供独特性线索的手段主要有明心理空间意识手段、潜心理空间意识手段和语言本身意识手段,仅仅注意第一种手段是不够的,还要注意第二、三种手段。从认知语法的视角研究该问题可以从眼前的物理情景推动到抽象的心理空间,从客观存在物推动到虚拟存在物。指称并不总是指向具体事物,有时仅仅是交际双方一致地意识到某物。
This paper attempts to account for definiteness restriction effect and its exceptions in English existentials based on the constructs of mental space, mental contact and search domain in cognitive gram- mar. The nature of definiteness restriction effect is to establish a mental contact about a uniquely determined instance from a type of entity between a listener and a specific instance, then mentally co - index between a speaker and the listener. Since there is a search domain, upon introducing new information, no mental contact concerning a unique instance is able to be established, hence indefinite determiner is logically required. However, if the two prerequisites of unique mental contact and focality of information can be satisfied, a definite determiner can also be felicitously accepted. It is not enough to notice only clearly stated mental space awareness clues, potential mental space awareness clues and linguistic expressions alone awareness clues should also be noticed in the study of this issue. The cognitive account for this issue mainly lies in the extensions from immediate physical situations to abstract mental spaces and from physical referents to imaginary ones. When we discuss reference, we don＇ t always point at physical things, sometimes are just aware of some abstract things in mental spaces.
出处
《天津外国语学院学报》
2009年第2期1-6,共6页
Journal Of Tianjin Foreign Studies University
关键词
存在句
定指限制
心理空间
心理接触
搜索域
existentials
definiteness restriction
mental space
mental contact
search domain
