语言背后的镜子——简析预设在语言概念功能中的深层特征

The Prism Behind Languages——Notes on Presuppositional Properties Evinced in Language's Ideational Function

作为一种暗含的语义关系,预设在语言概念功能的实现过程中显示出非语言性、历时性、虚拟性等特征。这些特征犹如语言背后的一面多棱镜,能折射出语言表层看不见的东西;语用学对预设的认识及观点长期存在分歧,研究预设的深层特征有助于认识这些分歧产生的根源。

As a kind of implied meaning, presupposition always manifests its particular properties in the realization of language ideational functions.Through careful studies of these properties,we can better see that presupposition, like a prism, can refract something deep and hidden in language meanings. What＇ s more, in pragmatics there exist differences in the views of presupposition, of which the studies of presupposition can help us gain a new inspection.