语篇与语言动态:语言本质探析

Text and the Dynamic Property of Language——A Study of Language Nature

语言的动态性不仅仅是历时研究的特征,而且也是共时研究的特征。篇章是语言交际的最小单位,篇章成分的动态性(如:词汇意义的不定性、句法结构的复义情况、篇章结构的多维性等)证明了语言的动态本质。语篇的生成和理解是动态的,是作者或读者与社会文化和语言知识基础的互动过程。如果语言的生成和理解是动态的,语言的本质也不可能是静态的,而是动态的。

This paper explores language dynamics from the perspective of text analysis.The paper argues that language is dynamic both synchronically and diachronically.As text is now supposed to be the minimal unit of language communication,the dynamic features of text(i.e.lexical meanings are dynamic,syntactic structures are ambicalent and text are multi-dimensional)further prove the dynamic properties of language.Besides,text generation and processing are complicated dynamic processes which involve the application of cultural,social and linguistic knowledge resources.If text production and comprehension are dynamic,language cannot be static but dynamic in nature.