弗斯的意义理论与语料库语言学

Firth's Linguistic Theory and Influence on Corpus Linguistics

弗斯(J.R.Firth)被誉为英国语言学之父,足见其学说影响力。在过去几十年里,弗斯的意义理论与之后的Sinclair的语言学思想共同促进了语料库语言学的发展,并且形成了一条清晰的学术传承脉络。我们重读经典,深入理解弗斯的学术思想及其对语料库语言学学科的影响,特别是他的一系列重要的概念和观点,如结构与系统、情景语境、搭配、类联接、韵、意义,等等,以期对目前从事相关的学术研究者有所启发。

The fact that J. R. Firth was regarded as the father of British linguistics suffices to show his prominent influence. For the past few decades, Firth＇ s ideas and Sinclairian linguistics have given rise to corpus linguistics, having thus formed a clear line of scholarly development. By reviewing the works of Firth, we work to interpret and re-evalu- ate Firthian linguistic theory and its influence on corpus linguistics in terms of a series of key notions, namely structure and system, context of situation, collocation, colligation, prosody, and meaning, with the expectation that this review will shed light on current related research.