论主观性标记的语义不自足特征

On the Semantic Insufficiency of Subjectivity Markers

从三个公认的主观性范畴情态、认知动词、第一人称代词出发,考察主观性标记在语义上是否自足。考察表明,主观语境对主观性语义的凸显起着重要作用。情态不能简单地与主观性挂钩,仅认识情态表达严格意义上的主观性,其主观性的实现同样有赖于主观语境;认知动词与第一人称代词主观性的实现均是有条件的,两者在主观性的表达上互为补充,该组合主观性的实现仍需进一步的主观语境。这说明,所谓的主观性标记在语义上并不自足,其主观性的实现有赖于主观语境的烘托。

Starting from three reputed subjectivity categories,i.e.,modality,cognitive predicates and first person subject,the paper attempts to assess whether subjectivity markers are semantically sufficient.It is finds that subjective context plays an important role in the foregrounding of subjective semantics.Modality cannot be linked with subjectivity in a simplistic way;only epistemic modality expresses subjectivity in the strict senses,and that the realization of its subjectivity still relies on subjective contexts.Verbs of cognition and first person pronoun tend to complement each other in the expression of subjectivity,and further subjective contexts are needed to ensure the subjectivity reading of this combination.This indicates that the so-called subjectivity markers exhibit semantic insufficiency,tending to rely on the foregrounding of subjective contexts in their expression of subjectivity.