绿色语法:基于COCA的oil搭配研究

Green Grammar: A Coca-based Analysis of Classifier Collocates of OIL

英语中的能源词多以不可数名词形态存在,这样的语法定义传递给人类的是:能源是取之不尽用之不竭的。语言是具有能动性的,反映现实的同时,也在参与构建现实。人类对能源的无限性意识,不自觉地不间断地影响着环境。我们应该发掘对环境恶化问题产生影响的语言,构建对环境保护问题产生作用的语言,通过语言构建世界。研究采用美国当代英语语料库(COCA),主要回答以下两个问题:(1)以oil作为中心词的搭配的分布情况;(2)上述分布最为密集的搭配所处的语境分布。研究发现:(1) price of oil在COCA中出现频率最高,表明在人类的经验中自然资源oil的经济价值占据主导地位。(2) price of oil在口语类型(SPOK)语料库中出现的频率最高,由交际时特定的国际政治文化背景(世界格局不稳)决定。国际战争致使人类金钱意识占据主导地位,生态意识缺失;国家政体应该承担主导责任,引领国人树立生态价值观,维护生态和谐。

Different from traditional grammar,Green grammar criticizes non-ecological phenomena existing in certain language system,and attempts to construct expressions which are of harmonious relationship with ecology. This paper,based on COCA,conducted an analysis of the keyword OIL by examining its classifier collocates. The result shows(1) that the most frequent collocate of OIL is PRICE,indicating that price of oil plays an important role in human experience;(2) that PRICE OF OIL occurs with the most frequency in SPOK corpus of COCA,indicating that social context plays a determining role in discourse meanings. Unsteady political structure in the world leads money ideology takes the first place of human life instead of the ultimate relationship within the ecosystem. Only certain ultimate relationship is expressed unambiguously,could such non-ecological behaviors be improved to promote ecological harmoniousness.