进化心理语言学产生的科学背景

The Scientific Background of Evolutional Psycholinguistics

人类的发展离不开语言,语言的进化与人类的进化发展历程相伴随,研究语言的进化必须体现以人类为核心的原则。进化心理学是近20年来西方心理学中出现的一种新的研究取向,任何一种新的研究取向的产生都不是偶然的,都有其深刻的背景。通过对人类起源及发展的"过去"的寻根究底,探究到语言起源与进化的心理机制,才能把握语言进化的历程。进化语言心理学试图运用进化论的观点研究语言学,从而把语言学纳入更广泛的知识体系,开辟语言学研究的新领域。而生态学、细胞分子学、考古学以及语言学的研究为进化心理语言学的发展提供了坚实的科学基础。

The language evolution companyed with the development of human being, so that the study of language evolution should perform the principle of human being center. The evolutionary psychology is a new research orientation in western psychology in recent 20 years, the generation of any new research trend has its deeply meaningful background rather than incidental. From exploring the ＂past＂ of anthropogenesis and its development to study the mental mechanism of language source and evolution,we could grasp the process of language evolution. The evolutionary psycholinguistics manages to study linguistics with evolutionary theory, brings it into more extensive knowledge system,and opens a new field for linguistics research. The study of ecology, cell molecule, archaeology and linguistics have provided substantial scientific foundation for evolutionary psycholinguistics.