语言“谜米”现象——是语用“偏离”还是语用“顺应”?(英文)

Socio-cultural Pragmatic Implications of “Meme”:Pragmatic Anomaly or Pragmatic Adaptability?

言语的“流行风”现象,即“谜米”现象,是语言使用中的普遍现象。论文通过对其形成的内在语用机制的探讨,揭示了其发生是“语用偏离”和“语用顺应”交互作用的结果,同时,又是人类趋同(或一致性)与求异双重心理结构的语言表征。它印证了列文森(Levinson)关于“社会语用或社交功能理据是语言变化和‘语言游戏’的内驱力”的论断。

Meme, a new terminology, describing the upsurging linguistic fads, a ＂genetic＂component of language behavior, has its subterranean pragmatic motivation-interplay of pragmatic anomaly/divergence and pragmatic adaptability, interaction of solidarity v.s. conformity and individualism v.s. distancing of language users in social contexts. It is a linguistic manifestation of ＂mind of society＂, as the result of a dynamic negotiation between social, psychological and physical coordinates, which testifies to the hypothesis that pragmatic or functional pressures ＂play a major role in language change＂ and ＂language games＂.