模因论与语言变异  

Memetics and Language Variation

作　　者：蔡少莲[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海交通大学,上海200240

出　　处：《广东外语外贸大学学报》2006年第3期31-35,共5页Journal of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

摘　　要：模因论是基于达尔文进化论的观点解释文化进化规律的一种新理论。它试图从历时和共时的视角对事物之间的普通联系以及文化具有传承性这种本质特征的进化规律进行诠释。本文从模因论的视角出发,对语言变异这一语言现象进行考察,认为,在语言模因的作用下,语言变异现象十分普遍,这是语言发展的需要,也是语言模因作用的结果。文章认为,用模因论解释语言变异现象比起以往单纯从社会文化理论视角进行解释更具说服力。Memetics is anewly developed theory aiming to explicate the evolutionary mechanisms of culture from the perspective of Darwinism. It lays much emphasis on the universal connexions between different things and the inheritance of cultural elements in the evolution of languages. Taking a memetic perspective, the present paper, through an examination of language variations, concludes that due to the effects of memes, language variations become a universal phenomenon and that the memetic perspective of scrutinizing language variations is more elaborative and convincing than the traditional sociocultural perspective.

关 键 词：模因论 普遍联系 语言变异 

分 类 号：H0-05[语言文字—语言学]