关于语言变异界定问题的若干思考

Some Thoughts on Definitions of Language Variation

语言变异是社会语言学的一个重要课题,但是语言变异概念在界定和解释上目前仍存在较大分歧。本文重点对国内相关研究成果进行梳理和归纳,澄清变异研究在对象和范围上存在的模糊之处,借助文里奇、拉波夫以及赫尔佐格的开创性研究,根据本体的和应用的两类不同研究目标,划分出广义的和狭义的语言变异,并通过共存性、单系统性、同义同功能性以及社会性进一步阐释语言变异的性质。

Language variation is an important subject in social linguistics, but there are disagreements over its definition and interpretation. This paper first sorts out the domestic related research results, and clarifies the ambiguity on the object and scope of language variation study. Based on the pioneering researches by Weinreich, Labor, Herzog, the paper defines the broad sense and narrow sense of language variation according to their different research goals, and further interprets the characteristics of language variation.