层级语义与论辩不确定性研究——以性质形容词为例

Gradable Semantics and Uncertainty in Abstract Argumentation: A Case Study of Gradable Adjective

性质形容词具有的一个显著特性是层级性,如从“冷”到“热”,并非是跳跃式的,而是渐进式的。“冷”和“热”程度如何,它们的临界点在哪里,其判断标准会根据描述对象和认知主体的不同而发生偏离。通过分析具有层级语义特征的形容词在论辩话语中的表现特征,本文认为层级语义和论辩主体的认知差异分别是造成论辩结果不确定的内在和外在动因.

Gradability is one of distinct characteristics of gradable adjective. For example, it is a gradual process instead of a radical one from "cold" to "hot". The extent of "cold" and "hot" as well as their critical point divert according to different cognitive agents involved in and different objects they modify. By analyzing the gradable semantics of adjective in argumentative discourse, our research finds out that the intrinsic factor which results in the uncertainty of argumentation is gradability, and the difference between different cognitive agents is external one.