一词多义现象的另一种解释——Marina Rakova的概念结构非多义性的观点

A New View at Polysemy:Marina Rakova's no-polysemy view of the conceptual structure

传统的语义理论没有把握多义现象的全部和本质,因而无法很好地解释一词多义这一常见的语言现象。认知语言学强调人的认知对概念形成的作用,认为一词多义是一个词语具有多种互相联系的意义之间的语言现象;认知语言学理论的确在一定程度上揭开了一词多义现象形成的缘由。但是否已经尽善尽美了?出于这样的考虑,笔者认为Marina Rakova的概念结构非多义性的观点可以算作是解释一词多义现象的一种新的探索,这种探索无疑是一种有益的尝试,有利于认知语言学理论的发展和完善。

The traditional semantic theories were quite impotent to deal with polysemy,because they failed to grasp the nature and essence of the polysemous phenomenon.Cognitive linguistics emphasizes the role of human cognition for the formation of concept,and thus considers polysemy as a linguistic phenomenon of a word with various related meanings.True,to some degree this is the most satisfactory solution we've so far obtained.However,we still wonder if the polysemy issue has been perfectly solved.For this puzzle,Marina Rakova's no-polysemy view of the conceptual structure seems more eloquent to give an explanation.Such an attempt is surely of great help to the development of the cognitive linguistic theory.