意义的意义——兼论语篇意义的分析单位

The Meaning of Meaning:On Analytic Unit of Text Meaning

意义的研究亟需深化、拓展,而意义概念的混沌不清极大地阻碍了这一进展。本文从哲学、符号学、语言学的学科角度梳理学术语境中的意义观,勾勒多学科视野中的意义概念图景。研究发现,当代学术语境倾向于语篇视角的意义分析,语篇的意义包括客观事件和主观评价两方面。符号序列只有同时表征了两者,它承载的意义才是完整的。同时,意义的在线生成性、环境规约性、发展流变性、主观建构性特征也因此得到强调。据此,语篇视角的意义分析大有可为,而这一分析路径的开辟首要设立适合意义分析的语篇单位。本文结合意义的概念图景得出结论:语篇中承载完整意义(事件+评价)的符号序列即为语篇意义的分析单位。

The study of meaning urgently needs promotion and expansion. However, the concept of meaning is obscure at present. We tease out the views of meaning from the subjects of philosophy, semiotics and linguistics to describe a picture of concept of meaning. It is found that contemporary academia tends to study the meaning of language from the perspective of text linguistics. Meaning of a text includes objective events and subjective evaluations. Only if the sequence of signs represents both at the same time, the meaning is complete. Accordingly, the study of meaning from the angle of text linguistics is promising. In consideration of the importance of analytic unit setting, we suggest that sequence of signs, which represents complete meaning, is the analytic unit in text meaning study.