论主观性的语境使成条件及集群效应

Subjectivity: Its Contextual Enabling Conditions and Cluster Effects

本文将汉语主观性标记放在组合语境中考察,发现主观性的解读不仅仅涉及特定的语言单位或范畴,还往往与组合语境中的其他成分相关;主观性标记存在着不同程度的语境依赖性和语境选择作用;高主观性表达往往呈集群效应,并表现出构式化倾向。因此,尽管特定的语言成分可以成为主观性的载体,但主观性的实现往往是主观性成分与其所处的组合语境合力作用的结果。

Current studies on subjectivity have largely focused on individual linguistic i- tems, while missing out the interaction among subjectivity markers in discourse. By putting Chinese subjectivity markers back to their syntagmatic contexts, we find that the construal of subjectivity not only involves particular lexical items or categories, but also often involves the contribution of other elements in the syntagmatic context that subjectivity markers tend to be context-dependent and context-selective to a greater or lesser extent; and that highly subjective expressions tend to exhibit cluster effects, and to move in the direction of con- structionalization. Based on these findings, we argue that though particular linguistic items may become the medium for subjectivity, tive items and the syntagmatic context in its realization tend to be a function of both subjecwhich they find themselves.