关于汉语熟语问题的讨论

Discussion about Chinese idioms

俄国科学院语言研究所维特罗夫.巴维尔.巴夫罗维奇(Vetrov Pavel Pavlovich)先生来信询问汉语熟语各个类别的定义及划分标准问题,本文结合具体例子,提出熟语类别的划分应该采用基于原型的范畴理论,而不是经典的范畴化理论;并指出熟语的分类采用的并不是一维标准,而是多维标准。很多熟语的类别归属不是非此即彼,而是亦此亦彼。

Mr Vetrov Pavel Pavlovich on the Language Research Institute of Russian Science Academy wrote to ask how to define various Chinese idiomatic expressions and what is the criterion to classify them . taking the practical examples mentioned by Mr Vetrov Pavel Pavlovich into consideration, I pointed out that Chinese idioms should be classified according to category theory which is not based upon tradition but on prototype. Classified by multi - dimensional criteria instead of unitary criterion, quite a lot of Chinese idioms may belong to several classifications simultaneously rather than a single type.