英语限定词的语用认知研究

A Study on Determinatives from the Perspective of Cognitive Pragmatics

描述性的传统语法强调限定词形式表层的功能和语义分析,缺乏深层的语用和认知阐释,限定词的理论和应用问题并未得到彻底的解决。本文从对言说对象的表达,即名词的语用认知视角考察限定词,认为限定词的限定意义在于对言语对象的指称,把限定词定义为名词的语用标记功能词汇,分析限定词指称事物的方式,即通过数量和位置范围的标记指称事物的存在。限定词指称事物具有层级性特征,这种层级性决定了限定词间的搭配和排斥,最后阐释不同限定词间的搭配和排斥现象。

The descriptive nature of traditional grammars focus on the superficial functions and semantics of determinatives without a profound exposition from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics,thus lacking a thorough resolution to the problems in theorizing and applying problems.The paper explores determinatives from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics in terms of referring to the material objects,defining them as marking the pragmatic functions of nouns as they enters utterances from the linguistic system.Determinatives refer to things real or imagined by representing their quantity and locality properties alone,being distributed in different levels which decides their collocation and repulsion.Finally kinds of collocation and repulsion phenomena are analyzed with an aim to justify the cognitive and pragmatic arguments on determinatives here.