话语含意推导的心理模型分析——以隐喻为例

Metaphorical Utterance Reasoning:A Study Based on Mental Model Stereotypical Reasoning Framework

认知语言学为话语理解与生成研究提供了新的理论框架,认为心理模型的运用是人类进行语用推理的基本形式,在自然语言的意义建构和理解过程中起着至关重要的作用。本文在认知语言学的"基于心理模型的含意推理因果化模型"的理论框架内,通过分析语言运用中的隐喻话语意义建构和理解的机理,借此进一步证明该框架作为研究话语含意的生成与理解的理论工具的普遍性、可及性和解释力,并认为话语含意的生成与理解是人们对客观事物之间的常规关系(相邻/相似关系)的认知加工、心理建模的结果。

Cognitive linguistics provides a new theoretical framework for the study of utterance interpretation and producing, holding the view that the operation of mental models, as a base of pragmatic reasoning, plays a fundamental role in the meaning construction of natural language. This paper follows this new approach to analyze and interpret metaphorical language and meanings, with similarity and proximity as its key concepts, within the framework of Stereotypical Relation Theory of Mental Model-based Pragmatic Reasoning by XU Sheng-huan, to expose the reasoning mechanisms of utterance interpretation, with the view that utterance interpretation and producing are products of cognitively and mentally processing stereotypical relation between relational entities by human.