特鲁别茨柯依“音系学”与“音位学”考辨——语言学史视角下的名与实

Distinguishing Between Trubetzkoy’s “Phonology” and“Phonemics”: Name and Essence from theLinguistic Historiographical Perspective

在语音研究领域,“音系学”和“音位学”曾被视为同义词。近年来,“音位学”这一术语的使用率骤减,但仍未完全消失。本文以语言学史一手文本为依据,回顾英文和中文文献中这两个术语的变迁过程,指出“音位学”这一术语淡出历史舞台的必然性,提出在今天的语音研究中彻底放弃这一历史名称的必要性。

In the studies of linguistic sound,“phonology”and“phonemics”were once regarded as synonymous terms.However,the use of the term“phonemics”has recently been drastically reduced,although it has not disappeared completely.Based on the first-hand texts,this article examines the development of these two terms in both English and Chinese sources,points out the inevitability of the extinction of the term“phonemics”,and proposes the necessity to abandon this historical term in the present-day research.