跨越语义/语用分界的引语研究

A Study of Quotation Across the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction

引语是一种涉及语言内容的指示形式,分为开放式引语和闭合式引语。闭合式引语通过句法补充为单称词项,行使指称功能,直接贡献于所在句子的组合性真值条件内容,是一种语义现象。开放式引语蕴含丰富的语境意义,集中体现引述目的,更应看作是语用学问题,涉及人们如何以言行事。在引语研究中择取一条语用路径,就要以引语的指示属性为出发点,将引号视为语用标示语,以刻画引语意义和话语内容的互动关系。

Quotation is a way of demonstration pertaining to linguistic content. It can be divided into open quotation and closed quotation. Closed quotation is syntactically recruited as a singular term with a referential function. As it directly contributes to the compositional truth conditional content of the embedding sentence, closed quotation is a semantic phenomenon. In contrast, open quotation carries rich contextual meaning which is epitomized in the quotational point. Therefore, it is better to be counted as a pragmatic issue, relevant to how people act with words. A pragmatic account of quotation takes the demonstration property of quotation as the starting point and regards quotation marks as pragmatic indicators to depict the interaction between the quotation meaning and the utterance content.