Congruence浅议

On Congruence

本文在对congruence的涵义和理论发展脉络进行归纳和清理的基础上,从认知语言学的视角提出了三条判别一致式与非一致式的标准,即主语典型性标准,是否隐涵根隐喻的标准和是否体现人体活动的标准。在总结名词化的范围时,作者发现,名词化可以存在于六种不同的及物性过程中,而且不同的及物性过程均可通过名词化而以语法隐喻的形式实现对语义的编码,这样一来,不同过程间的相互隐喻和名词化隐喻间的非对称性被消解。

On the basis of summing up the connotations and theoretical development of congruence, this paper puts forward three criteria for the distinction of congruence and incongruence, namely, subject prototypicality, implied radical metaphor and embodiment. In concluding the scope of nominalization, it is discovered that nominalization occurs in the six transitive processes, and all process types can be nominalized in realizing semantic configurations. Consequently the asymmetry between the metaphorization of one process by another and nominalization is dissolved.