摘要
自20世纪70年代末以来，语言象似性问题受到广泛关泣，索绪尔的语言符号任意性原则受到批评。本文以皮尔斯关于象似性的符号理论为框架，评述近20年来语言类型学和认知语言学的研究所揭示的语言符号的象似性。国内学者虽已有评述，但有不少重要的研究几乎没有提到，如标记象似性、非对称象似性和隐喻象似性。而且对于象似性概念的理解在许多方面已经偏离了皮尔斯最初的定义，倾向于把语言结构的任何功能理据都看作是象似性的体现。本文论述的重点是语言符号系统的图表象似性和隐喻象似性，分别和皮尔斯的符号系统中的图表象似符及隐喻象似符对应。
Since the 1970s iconicity in language has been an important concern of linguists and de Saussure's theory of the arbitrariness of linguistic signs has been widely criticized. This paper, based on Peirce's semiotic theory, offers a critical review of studies of iconicity by researchers working in linguistic typology and cognitive linguistics over the past two decades. Though there have been a number of surveys of this field, some important studies, such as studies of markedness, unsymmetry and metaphor, have been relatively neglected. Besides, interpretations of iconicity have deviated from Peirce's original definition in many ways. This paper concentrates on diagrammatic iconicity and metaphorical iconicity in language, corresponding to Peirce's diagrams and metaphors respectively.
出处
《山东外语教学》
2003年第3期17-23,共7页
Shandong Foreign Language Teaching
关键词
符号
象似性
任意性
隐喻
sign
iconicity
arbitrariness
metaphor
