入场理论框架下英语乏词义构式的语义-语用接口研究

Study on Semantics-Pragmatics Interface of English Delexical Construction Under Grounding Theory

Langacker的入场理论表征认知事件与言语过程之间语境关系。作为英语中的特殊构式,乏词义构式指动词自身不占语义,要与其后宾语共同构成完整动作过程的结构。基于入场理论,本文讨论乏词义构式的语义-语用接口表征。研究发现:认知场景中乏词义构式句法架构、语义事件和语用情境可同时勾画出来;在勾画事件时乏词义构式更注重焦点和次焦点的相互投射;不同认知语用场景中乏词义构式将突显事件宾语,并依据境域变化体现语用缓和功能、语境关联功能或修辞劝说功能。入场理论对乏词义构式的认知机制有较好的解释力,有助于揭示语言显性结构认知的普遍性和语言结构的生成。

The grounding theory proposed by Langacker mainly represents the contextual relationsbetween cognitive events and verbal processes. As a special construction in English, delexical constructionrefers to a kind of structure in English, in which the delexical verbs do not take up any semantic meaningsbut convey the entire process of action through collocating with its following objects. This paper, based onthe grounding theory,investigated the representation of delexical construction of semantics-pragmaticsinterface. The research findings are as follows： syntax structure of delexical construction, semantics eventand pragmatics situation can be depicted at the same time in cognition situation; delexical constructiongives priority to mutual projections between focus and secondary focus during depicting the event; delexicalconstruction not only highlights the event object during various cognitive pragmatic situations？ but alsoreflects pragmatic mitigation function, contextual correlation function and rhetorical persuasion functionaccording to the variation of cognitive situations; It is argued that the grounding theory provides strongexplanatory power for the cognitive mechanism of delexical construction. It contributes to disclosing thecognitive universality of overt structures towards language as well as generation of language structures.