未言说成分——神话抑或实体?

Unarticulated Constituents:Myth or Reality?

围绕"未言说成分"概念的本体论地位、特性与功能的争鸣,充分反映了语境论与语义最小论关于意义、命题、真值乃至语义学/语用学界面等一系列语言哲学论题的不同立场。在各种形式的语境论愈来愈成为语言哲学研究中主导性取向的今天,句子意义的形式研究与言语行为性质的相对非形式研究愈加紧密地交织在一起,并不断推动研究重心从句子向话语转移。随之,语用充实的解释力更加显现。因此,在可预见到的未来,"未言说成分"这一概念似不可能轻易退出语言哲学的竞技场。

Over the ontological status,characteristics and functions of the so-called unarticulated constituents,the debates substantially reflect the different stands contextualism and semantic minimalism take on such a range of topics in the philosophy of language as meaning,proposition,truth-conditions and even the semantics/pragmatics interface.Currently,various forms of contextualism have become the dominant orientation in the philosophy of language,and the formal study of sentence meaning and the relatively informal study of the properties of speech acts have become more and more intertwined,thus promoting the shift of the focus of study from sentences to utterances.Consequently,the explanatory power of pragmatic enrichment has been increasingly manifested.Therefore,the notion of unarticulated constituents seems unlikely to withdraw from the arena of the philosophy of language in the foreseeable future.