副语言意义研究——系统功能语言学视角

Embodied meaning: a systemic functional perspective on paralanguage

系统功能语言学对早期儿童语言发展有独到的研究。受其启发,本文建构了副语言的分析框架。本文中区分了非符义行为(具身表征)和意义(符义过程)。在符义过程方面,文章区分了语言与副语言两种符义过程(副语言指依赖语言、通过音质和诸如面部表情、手势和身姿在内的身势语实现的符义过程)。在副语言方面,文章区分了口语中的音韵融合型资源和语义融合型资源。前者与口语的韵律音系共时或共鸣,后者在口语的内容平面上对概念、人际和谋篇三种意义资源起加强作用。文章最后讨论了语言、副语言和其他交际模态之间的关系。

This paper develops a framework for analysing paralanguage,initially inspired by systemic functional linguistic(hereafter SFL) research on early child language development. A distinction is drawn between nonsemiotic behaviour(somasis) and meaning(semiosis),and within semiosis between language and paralanguage(using the term paralanguage to refer to semiosis dependent on language and realised through both sound quality and body language,the latter including facial expression,gesture and posture). Within paralanguage a distinction is drawn between sonovergent resources in sync with or in tune with the prosodic phonology of spoken language,and semovergent resources supporting the ideational,interpersonal and textual meaning resources of spoken language's content plane. The paper closes with a brief discussion of the intermodal relations among language,paralanguage and other modalities of communication.