生物学范式下的语言研究综述  

A survey of language studies in the biological paradigm

作　　者：代天善[1] 

机构地区：[1]武汉大学/深圳职业技术学院

出　　处：《现代外语》2007年第3期301-307,共7页Modern Foreign Languages

摘　　要：语言学经历了许多范式的转变。当前,Hauser,Chomsky和Fitch(2002,2005)就语言机能的遗传与进化提出的"唯递归性假说"加强了生物学范式的语言研究。然而,Jackendoff和Pinker(2005)对这一假说进行了激烈的批判并提出了语言机能的"适应性假说"。争辨双方的焦点在于如何析解作为一个整体的人类语言机能、"唯递归性假说"的科学性及这一假说在语言遗传与进化研究中的意义。本文对争辩双方的理论基础及进化主张做了扼要的对比与述评,并就生物范式下的语言研究进行了简明综述。Studies of linguistics have undergone quite a few paradigm shifts. The recursion-only hypothesis of the evolution of the language faculty brought forward by Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch has enkindled extensive debates in the bio-linguistic context. Jackendoff and Pinker criticize the hypothesis severely and co-advance their language-as-adaptation hypothesis as a competitive alternative. This paper compares and critiques the two hypotheses in terms of their theoretical bases and evolutionary standpoints, and concludes with a summary of the language studies in the current biological paradigm.

关 键 词：语言机能 生物范式 递归性 Chomsky/乔姆斯基 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]