语言符号象似性的哲学思辨

Philosophical ponderation on iconicity of linguistic signs

象似性(iconicity)理论是当今国内外语言学界研究的一项热门课题,是对索绪尔开创的结构主义语言学“二元符号模式”的一种反思。语言符号的能指与所指之间的关系并非是完全任意的,其也有象似性的一面,语言符号的任意性和象似性处于相互补充的辩证关系之中。

Iconicity, as a challenge to the authenticity of Saussaure＇s semiotic arbitrariness, has triggered off unfading interest among linguistic scholars during the past decades. This paper is dedicated to deal with iconicity mainly from the philosophical perspective so as to shed some light on the dialectical and complementary relationship between arbitrariness and iconicity of linguistic signs.