语义范畴成员的离心运动与语言创新

Centrifugal Movement of Semantic Members and Language Innovation

语义范畴不仅具备原型性、开放性、向心性的特征,还有离心特征,即语义范畴成员有不断挣脱并远离范畴的趋势。其动力来源于人们的创新需求,意义的主观化是这一离心趋势的牵引力。向心性保证了语义范畴存在的完整性,而离心性为范畴的开放及范畴的发展提供了可能。语义范畴成员的离心运动结果引起语言创新,人们通过概念合成对创新语言进行识解。

Besides prototypical,admissible,and centripetal,semantic categories are also centrifugal,a tendency for semantic members to run away from the semantic category,the need for creation as the motive power.We view the subjectification property of meaning as the force for this centrifugal movement.The centripetal feature guarantees the existence of a semantic category,while the centrifugal feature provides openness and development foe the category.As a result,language fulfills its development through innovation,which can be decoded through conceptual blending.