英汉回文修辞的认知拓扑性质

Cognitive Topological Properties of English-Chinese Palindrome Rhetoric

从认知语义范畴看,英汉回文修辞实质上具有拓扑性质的变形。即回文的语义范畴成员基本保持固定,具有语义范畴不变性,而由于范畴成员位置的首尾对称调换使得语义概念重新范畴化,原有范畴丧失了典型地位,形成非范畴化语义的可变性。这种非范畴化语义的“变化”中存在的语义范畴的“不变”性质,就是回文的认知拓扑性质。研究发现回文修辞的独特语言构式表现为一连串文字符号有规则连续性变换,而语义范畴基本成员保持不变的特征。

From the perspective of cognitive semantic category,English and Chinese palindromic rhetoric actually has topological deformation.i.e.the semantic category members of palindrome remain basically fixed with invariant semantic category,whereas the semantic concept is reclassified due to the symmetric change of category members’positions,and the original category loses its typical status,thus forming the variability of non-categorical semantics.The“invariable”nature of the semantic category in the“changeable”of non-categorical semantics is the cognitive topological nature of palindromes.It is found that the unique feature of linguistic construction for palindrome rhetoric is based on a series of regular continuous transformation,while the basic members of the semantic category remain unchanged.