霍根的“语境语义学”思想分析及其意义

Analysis of Horgan's Thoughts on Contextual Semantics and its Significance

科学的语义学作为一种语言分析的方法论工具在历史上处于不断完善的过程中,同时语义学的科学性内在地要求语义的语境基础的建立和巩固。从这个层面上来说,霍根所提出的语境语义学实现了狭隘的微观语义分析向系统整体语义分析的转变。在语境论的视阈中,意义与语境具有本质的关联,意义并非直接等同于真值的确定性,而是具有了动态和语用的特征。语境语义学作为霍根语言分析思想的理论基础,在语言模糊性问题的考察与研究中得到了深化和扩展;同时霍根在自然主义纲领的基础上捍卫了语境语义学的本体论地位,并且在将实在论立场与语境语义学结合的过程中强烈地突出了意义的文化社会结构特征,这从一个侧面反映了语境语义学分析视域的拓展和完善。

Scientific semantics is a methodological instrument of language analysis,which has been continuously improved in history,and the scientificity of semantics inherently requires the establishment of semantics'contextual basis.So in this sense,Horgan's contextual semantics has achieved the change from parochial and microscopic semantic analysis to systematic and holistic semantic analysis.In the filed of contextual theory,meaning is essentially related to context.Instead of being directly equal with the certainty of truth it is characterized by dynamic and pragmatic features.Contextual semantics has already been extended and deepened in the exploration of language's fuzziness.At the same time,Horgan defends the ontological position of contextual semantics on the basis of the program of naturalism,and strongly emphasizes the cultural and social features of meaning in the process of integrating realism standpoint and contextual semantics,which from one aspect represents the expansion and perfection in the analytical sphere.