汉语语言认知的嬗变

On Cognitive Evolution of Chinese Language's Formation

汉语语言认知理论体系正在发生大的变革,其真正动因是"字本位"理论的提出。"字本位"的立论源于对汉语本体的研究,解决汉语言的生成问题,促使语言认知理论本土化。汉字具有意象表义的语言特点,字形与字音在表义功能上存在较大的差异。形声字并非表音文字,其字体结构依然遵循表义原则。字形表义所具有的文化特性对汉语语言的构成影响较大,推动汉字完成了由记事转为记录语言的历史跨越。

The cognitive system of Chinese language＇s formation is under a great evolution, basically caused by the proposal of ＂Sinogram- based Theory＂. This proposal is based on studies of Chinese language itself to find out how Chinese has been generated and to improve the cognitive theory of our mother tongue. Chinese characters are typical of reflecting meanings with their images, forms being largely different from their pronunciations in meanings. Pictophonetic characters are not phonographic, but ideographic in their word forms. The cultural features in word forms with different meanings are a powerful impact on the formation of Chinese language, pushing Chinese characters to realize a historic leap from recording events to recording language itself.