中国语言研究传统与语篇语义学

The Chinese Linguistic Tradition and Discourse Semantics

文章讨论中国语言研究传统与Martin的语篇语义学的相同点。笔者首先简要论述了中国传统的语法概念,然后详细回顾了中国语言研究传统中的起承转合结构说和主题论的发展历程。最后,笔者介绍了Martin关于语篇结构和意义的理论,并讨论了该理论与中国语言研究传统的具体相似之处。

This paper attempts to make a comparison between the traditional approach to language in China and discourse semantics as practiced by James Martin in systemic functional linguistics.The author first introduces the Chinese concept of grammar briefly,then goes on to discuss the traditional Chinese approach to language study in terms of the structural theory of Qi Cheng Zhuan He and the theory of thesis.Finally,he turns to Martin＇s discourse semantics in some detail,and points out the similarities between his theory and the Chinese linguistic tradition.