平行构式的存在理据:对话句法+认知构式语法的视角

Motivations for the Existence of Parallel Construction:A Dialogic Syntax+Cognitive Construction Grammar Perspective

本文从对话句法和认知构式语法的视角,把平行结构视作一种构式-平行构式,并从构式的定义、场景编码假设、语言的体认性、平行构式对于组成词汇的压制等方面,进一步论证了平行构式存在的理据。平行构式能够改变其中词汇的读音、词性、意义,引起词义的转换,并可能产生新词。对于平行构式的研究有助于我们理解小句层级之上语篇的句法结构,有助于把构式的概念真正扩展到语篇的层面和语言之外的模态,有助于将构式语法应用到语篇层面的分析和多模态话语分析。

Based on the perspectives of dialogic syntax and cognitive construction grammar,this paper views parallel structure as instantiations of the parallel construction,and elaborates the motivations for the construction’s existence in terms of Goldberg’s definition of construction,Scene Encoding Hypothesis,embodiment of language,and the parallel construction’s coercion upon its component words.The parallel construction can coerce and modify the pronunciation,word class,and meaning of the words in the construction;the coercion of the construction may also lead to word meaning shift and coinage of new words.The study on the parallel construction contributes to expanding the concept of construction to the scope of discourse and to the modalities beyond language and applying construction grammar to the analysis of texts and multimodal discourse.