日语拟声、拟态词的内部理据探索

A Study of Internal Motivations in Japanese Onomatopoeia

拟声、拟态词是人类语言系统中的一部分 ,其能指和所指之间的非任意性历来被认为是语言系统外部的现象而未被重视。事实上 ,在日语中拟声、拟态词不仅具有语言的外部理据 ,其语音上的促音、流音、拨音、长音和清浊音的规律 ,其形态上的重叠现象 ,以及其语义的起源和衍生 ,都说明拟声、拟态词还具有语音、形态和语义等内部理据。

Onomatopoeia is part of human language system. Always taken as a phenomenon outside language system,the unarbitrary relationship between its signifier and signified has received little attention. In fact,Japanese onomatopoeia embodies not only external motivations,but also internal motivations at phonetic,morphological and semantic levels,These are reflected in the rules concerning sokuon ,liquids,syllabic nasals,long vowels,voiced/voiceless sounds,morphological reduplication,and the origin and derivation of its meanings.