系统与层级:语言“金字塔”

System and Cycle:A Language Pyramid

语言是一个复杂的多层级符号系统,包括语音、语法、词汇和语义等子系统,且各子系统又有自己的子系统,形成一个完美的"金字塔",上面的(子)系统支配着下面的(子)系统,下位层支撑和实现着上位层,同时同位层地位平等但功能不同。这就使语言具有整体性、关联性、稳定性、有序性、层级性、择优性、自我完善性等特征。

Language is a complex system of symbols with a lot of cycles,and it includes the subsystems of phonetics,grammar, vocabulary and meaning, each having its own subsystems, thus language is a perfect＂pyramid＂,whose upper system controls the lower ones which support and realize the upper ones, and the systems at the same level enjoy equality in status and difference in function as well, therefore, language has the features of integrity, relevancy, stability, sequence, cycle, best-selection and self-perfection.