“日心说”时间认知模式

On the Sun-oriented temporal cognitive model

本文通过对汉语方言材料进行共时研究来构建汉语宇宙观——以太阳为中心的时间认知模式。时间"日心说"之建立源自对汉语"夜来"歧义之谜的破解。"夜来"在现代汉语里具有"晚上"和"昨天"之意,即"入夜"和"日头爷"两意,而在方言里不存在歧义:要么指"昨天",要么指"晚上"。本文论证夜意派生自日头爷意,此"夜"是彼"爷",即日头爷。太阳是时间概念形成的源头,时间的实体化表征。另外,本文所构建的"日心说"时间认知模式类似于玛姆语和艾玛拉语的宇宙观,是人类时间参照点模式的源头。

Linguistic data from dialects of Chinese is employed synchronically to construct a cognitive model of sun-oriented cosmology. The ambiguity of yelai meaning "night" and "yesterday" in Mandarin Chinese disappears in dialects in which either yesterday or night reading is available, but not both. We argue that the night reading is derived from the yesterday reading in that the "ye" though spelled as "night" in both words is the grandpa "ye" as the sun. The sun is the origin of Chinese conception of time and the symbol or entification of time. The universality of this cognitive mode of sun-oriented time cognition awaits further study as it is similar to the cosmology of Mam and Aymara as it is the origin of Time-Reference-Point frame.