基于语义重力说和评价理论的评价重力——以傅莹《中国是超级大国吗?》演讲为例

Evaluative Gravity——Discourse Analysis of Fu Ying's Diplomatic Speech “Is China a Power?”

评价理论通过分析话语中各类评价资源来描述话语的评价意义。然而纷繁的评价资源在突出话语主旨时功能不一,研究者在量化统计时经常不作区分。本文以卡尔·美敦的语义重力为线索提出评价重力,以区分与语境有不同关联程度的评价,为核心评价资源的有效区分和量化统计提供理论支撑。通过分析傅莹《中国是超级大国吗?》一文的评价资源和语义重力,本文概要描述了语义重力和评价主旨内容的关系,展示了评价重力在区分核心评价和边缘评价时的功能和效果。

Evaluative theory describes the evaluative meaning by analyzing the discourses. But the great variety of evaluative resources cannot present the core meaning to the same scale of prominence, which is sometimes ignored by analysts in their statistics. Our paper puts forward the concept of Evaluative Gravity based on Karl Maton's semantic gravity to differentiate the evaluative resources with different degree of relevance to the context. In the paper we analyze the evaluative resources and semantic gravity of Fu Ying's speech'Is China a Power?'Based on the resources we survey, we demonstrate the working mechanism of evaluative gravity and describe the relationship between semantic gravity and evaluative core content.