论自然言语的信息压缩性  

Compression of the message in utterances

作　　者：郎天万[1] 

机构地区：[1]四川外语学院英语系,重庆400031

出　　处：《四川外语学院学报》2001年第1期77-80,共4页Journal of Sichuan International Studies University

摘　　要：阐释言语的意义必须阐释语言符号界面与言语者的认知界面的相互作用过程。人们理解言语时储存在记忆中的概念会在概念结构系统中发生激活扩散 :一个概念的激活会导致相关概念的激活。由于言语与认知者相互作用时言语能使认知者展开由此及彼的推理过程 ,使认知者从一个概念联想到另一个概念 ,所以言语能够发挥以此代彼的借代功能。这种借代功能导致了言语编码的压缩性原则。我们把代表知识系统的概念结构比喻成网络 ,言语信号触动某些网点时 ,邻近的网点和连线也受激活。所以自然言语编码使用简略的方法 ,用蛙跳式的方式触动概念结构 ,留下大量的心理空间让受话人去搜索填补。Exposition of utterance meaning entails exposition of the interaction between the linguistic input and the cognitive processes on the part of the addressee. During such an interaction, the coming linguistic signal sets off a chain of cognitive association, enabling the addressee to reach one concept through another. Hence one utterance may stand for another. It is this power of substitution that leads to the economy of linguistic encoding.The conceptual structure as representation of stored knowledge in the mind is as it were a network: Once some node is activated, adjacent nodes and connections can be triggered as a consequent. Therefore the encoding process follows the principle of economy, hopping from one concept to another and leaving much for the addressee to look up and fill in.

关 键 词：概念结构 激活扩散 借代 信息压缩 - ' ● 

分 类 号：H03[语言文字—语言学]