人际隐喻视角下and条件复句的语义双重性研究

An Interpersonal Metaphor Perspective on the Double Meaning of Conditional-and Clause Complexes

经典的并列连词and可联结小句构成条件复句,表达条件语义的同时,亦可表达祈使语义。本文主要基于系统功能语言学理论,尝试从人际隐喻视角出发,探讨and条件复句的语义双重性及其语言机制。研究发现,通过语气隐喻、评价隐喻等人际语法资源,and条件复句体现了条件-结果逻辑语义和人际命令或评价语义的融合,其功能可强化或柔化说话人的指令语力,或间接地体现说话人对相关事物或事件的态度、立场及其它评价,从而拓展了语言系统的意义潜势。

As a conventional coordinating conjunction,and is capable of combining clauses to create conditional clause complexes that convey both a conditional and an imperative meaning.Drawing on the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics,this paper endeavors to investigate the double meaning of conditional-and clause complexes and the language mechanism from an interpersonal metaphor perspective.The study finds that by leveraging mood and appraisal metaphors,conditional-and clause complexes allow for the blending of the conditional-result logical meaning with the interpersonal meaning of a command or an appraisal.In doing so,speakers can modulate(i.e.,enhance or soften)their directive force,or indirectly convey attitudes,stances and other interpersonal evaluations of specified things or events,thus expanding the meaning potential of the language system.