摘要
文献分析表明,已有研究对英语认识情态主客观性的区分主要依赖言据,实质上忽视了说话人的作用,尚存缺陷和不足。本文尝试用主观性和主观化理论解释认识情态主客观类型的变化。研究发现,认识情态的主客观性由说话者思维深刻度和说话者与命题的二分或融合的关系决定,说话者思维深刻、情态与命题二分时为主观情态,否则为客观情态;认识情态主客观性的变化机制为图形-背景变换,情态动词和命题可以互为图形和背景,较好地解释了认识情态主客观性的转换。
A review of the literature shows that existing studies classify subjectivity and objectivity of epistemic modality in terms of evidentiality,ignoring the role of the speaker.This paper,however,attempts to explicate changes in subjectivity and objectivity of epistemic modality by drawing upon the theory of subjectivity and subjectification.It argues that variation in subjectivity and objectivity of epistemic modality is affected by the depth of the speaker's thinking and the separate or integrated relation between the speaker and proposition concerned.To be specific,the epistemic modality is subjective when the speaker meditates deeply and is isolated from the proposition;otherwise,the epistemic modality is objective.The mechanism of change in subjectivity and objectivity of epistemic modality is believed to be a shift in figure and ground,where epistemic modality and the proposition concerned appear as figure and ground respectively.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第4期522-534,640,共13页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
基金
汤敬安主持的湖南省社科基金课题“英汉情态范畴向将来时演变研究”(11WLH46)的系列成果之一
