语言的界限:“情境论”视角下的布兰顿回指理论

The boundary of language:Brandon's anaphora theory from the perspective of situational theory

通过回指理论提供的以“次语句”为核心的推论网络,布兰顿将“语言-世界”的关系转变为“语言-语言”的关系,为刻画指称关系提供了新进路。但是,布兰顿的回指理论面临两个主要困难:“指称不透明”和“回指不共指”。为了解决这两个问题,将采用雷卡纳蒂的“情境论”来优化回指理论,通过引入σ-异质结构来解决布兰顿回指理论面临的困难。首先,在回指链中插入情境算子以揭示句子的情境结构,严格区分句子的情境内容和语义内容;其次,厘清不同认知主体在不同情境中的回指链及其逻辑关系;最后,那些位于回指链之外无法穷尽的“最终视角”和无法还原的现实世界,同样以情境方式呈现出来。总之,在回指关系中“语言”“心灵”和“世界”都是必不可少的一环。

Through the inference network provided by the theory of anaphora,with"sub sentences"as the corer Brandon transformed the relationship between"language-world"into the relationship between"language-language',providing a new approach to characterize referential relationships.However,Brandon's theory of anaphora faces two main difficulties:"referential opacity"and"non co referential anaphora",To address these issues,Ricardo's"situational theory"will be adopted to optimize the theory of anaphora,introducingα-Heterogeneous structure is used to solve the difficulties faced by Brandon's anaphora theory.Firstly,modal operators are inserted into the anaphora chain to reveal the contextual structure of sentences,strictly distinguishing between the contextual and semantic content of sentencesi Secondly,clarify the anaphoric chains and their logical relationships of different cognitive subjects in different contextsi Finally,the inexhaustible"ultimate perspective"and the irreducible real world located outside the anaphora chain are also presented in a situational manner.In short,"language","mind",and"world"are essential components in anaphoric relationships.