概念主义背景下的语义客体反思

A Defence of the Semantic Object in the Context of the Conceptualism

卡茨语义论主张,句子、连同构成它们的语义结构和由该结构所决定的语义特征均属于永恒的、不朽的、先于个体认知而独立存在的客观现实。本研究重点审视卡茨的语义客体观,并对其可表达性原则的可行性以及应用范围等问题展开探究。进一步提出,语义客体内容是语言主观使用和研究的前提和基础,它至少是语言主观性描写所不能规避的事实。

Katz's semantics holds that sentences,together with their semantic structure and the semantic features determined by the structure,are all timeless,unchangeable and objective structures,which exist independently prior to an individual's cognition.Katz's semantic view once aroused wide attention and debate in Western academic circles,yet hasn't attracted enough attention of domestic academe.This paper defenses the assumption of semantic object advocated by Katz,and probes into the feasibility and application of universality of its effability principle.It suggests that linguistic subjectivity presupposes the semantic object.To say the least,the semantic object is a fact that cannot be avoided by the conceptualism.