音位变异与社会意义的建构:认知社会语言学的视角

Construction of Social Meaning in Phonemic Variation:A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Perspective

音位在不同的环境中有不同的实例化,称为音位变异,包括语音环境引起的自由变异和社会情境语境引起的地域或社会方言变异。音位变异产生音位变体。本文从方言变异的角度,通过对结构主义语言学、系统功能语言学和社会语言学视角的评述,阐述认知社会语言学关于音位变体建构社会意义的独特视角和基于用法的理论主张。

Phonemic variation refers to the different actualizations of the same phoneme in different contexts,including free variation due to different phonetic environments and dialectal variation due to particular situational contexts such as the regional and social background of the speaker.The dialectal variation is among the socially diagnostic features.This paper deals with the second type of phonemic variation from a cognitive sociolinguistic perspective,in contrast with the approaches from Saussurian structuralism,Systemic Functional Grammar and sociolinguistics.