指称性变化与there构式的主观性意义研究

Referentiality and the subjectivity of there-construction

以往关于there构式的研究主要关注其表达的客观存在意义。然而,语言事实表明,there构式也可表达主观性意义。本研究通过对there构式中4个基本构成部分语言特征的考察,发现该构式中引导词、存在方式、存在物和存在处所的指称性变化都会不同程度地产生主观性意义,从而更准确地表达言者的交际意图。本研究进一步证明指称转换为陈述是语言系统主客观意义动态转换的重要机制。

Previous studies on there-construction focused on its objective existential meaning.However,in its actual usage,the construction often carries a sense of subjectivity.Based on language features of the four fundamental components of the construction(the introductory there,the predicate verb be,the NP,and the PP),the current study examines how subjectivity arises to different degrees when the referentiality of any one of the components changes.The study shows that any change in form of the construction will cause a change in the communicative intentions as implied by the construction.The study further demonstrates that the referentiality to assertion transformation is an important mechanism of the dynamic objectivity and subjectivity transformations in language.