认知类“立标语”的线性序列与动态语用功能探究  

On the Linearity and Dynamity of Epistemic Markers in Spoken English

作　　者：何安平[1] 徐曼菲[1] 

机构地区：[1]华南师范大学

出　　处：《当代外语研究》2011年第3期17-21,60,共5页Contemporary Foreign Language Studies

基　　金：广东省哲学社会科学“十一五”规划学科共建项目“学术话语立场标记语研究”(项目编号06GK-01)的研究成果之一

摘　　要：认知类立场标记语是表述说话者对所讲话语内容（或称命题）的认知程度或确切性判断。以往对该类话语的研究多从其语言形式特征和语义语用功能分类以及分布频数等角度展开；本研究则尝试从话语产出的序列性和话语意义构建的多层共选性这两个视角来探究英语口语立标语的产出机制和动态语用功能。借鉴国外多位学者对口语线性序列研究的成果以及语料库语言学的词汇语法理论，本研究通过调查大型英语口语语料库的认知类立标语（以Ithink为原型）的2．6万余个语例，构建起立标语的线性序列分析框架。结果发现立标语语用功能的实现并非孤立于某个单词或短语；而更多地是与其他立标语词共选，组合性地呈现出以弱势语气为主、但也有少量强弱语气混合的动态发展模式。Epistemic stance markers are linguistic devices expressing speakers’ degree of certainty towards his/her statements or propositions. Previous study laid focus on these markers’ formal, meaningful or functional features, classifications and frequency distributions. This paper makes a closer study of epistemic stance markers (with I think as a prototype) from perspectives of utterance linearity and multi-level meaning unit construction. Enlightened by research findings on utterance linearity and the lexicalgrammar theory in corpus linguists, the authors retrieve more than 26,000 cases of 'I think sequence' from BoE so as to set up an analytic framework to investigate their lexical, semantic and pragmatic co-occurrences. It is found that epistemic markers tend to co-select many other stance devices rather than appearing in isolation. Such epistemic sequences syntagmatically constitute a dynamic usage pattern which marks a weakening stance as a main trend but occasionally a shifted stance with both weak and strong epistemic devices.

关 键 词：立场标记语 线性序列 动态功能 英语口语语料库 

分 类 号：H08[语言文字—语言学]