语言模糊现象研究的话语转向

A Discursive Turn in Linguistic Vagueness Research

目前为止,语言模糊研究可以分为两个阶段,第一个阶段是语言本体模糊阶段,主要研究由于语言本身的意义模糊不清而导致的语言模糊,主要包括传统的边界不清语义模糊和其他相近的语义模糊研究,以及模糊限制语的研究;第二个阶段是语言进入交际语境中产生的模糊现象,主要是语用模糊研究,如含意不清和施为用意不清等导致的模糊。本文在前人研究基础之上,提出语言模糊研究正进入话语模糊研究阶段,即从话语层面上动态地考察语言的模糊现象,以期进一步推动语言模糊研究的发展。

Existing research on linguistic vagueness can be roughly be divided into two stages. The first stage focuses on linguistic vagueness per se resulting from fuzzy nature of words and semantic hedges.The second stage dwells on vague use of language in communicative contexts,and in particular,on pragmatic ambiguity due to vague implicatures or illocutionary meanings. Based on previous research,the present paper proposes the notion of discursive vagueness,which points to dynamic vague phenomena at discourse level,in the hope of advancing linguistic vagueness research into a new stage.