语用学与认知语言学融合的新路径——推论-构式语用观

Integrating Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics:A call for Inferential-Constructional Pragmatics

本文探究后格赖斯语用学与认知语言学中构式语法的理论融合。研究发现:后格赖斯语用学倚重语用推论对说话人交际意向的识别,但忽视了语法、语用规约的核心作用。构式语法秉持语法构式中形式与意义/功能的规约匹配范式,但对语用因素探究不足,尤其忽略了语用推论的关键作用。为弥补双方理论局限,我们倡导将这两种理论范式进行有机整合,从推论-构式语用学的分析视角,全面考察构式义并合表征中语法规约意义、语用规约意义与语用推论之间的互动与融合。

This paper argues for and explores the possibility of integrating(post-Gricean)pragmatics and cognitive linguistics-based construction grammar in linguistic research because the two theories may completement each other.On the one hand post-Gricean pragmatics pays special attention to pragmatic inference employed in uncovering the speaker’s communicative intention,yet it overlooks,to a certain extent,the importance of grammatical and pragmatic convention.On the other hand,construction grammar adheres to the conventional form-meaning/function pairing,but it undervalues pragmatics in general and pragmatic inference in particular.To compensate their respective limitations,we argue for integrating the two linguistic theories in language studies.This theoretical integration may lead to what we“call inferential-constructional pragmatics”,a linguistic theoretical approach that focuses on the convergence or interaction of grammatical meaning,conventional pragmatic meaning,and pragmatic inference in constructional merger representation.