从英语单音节词看叶斯柏森的语言进步论——语言事实与语言刻板印象  

Otto Jespersen’s Linguistic Progress as Viewed from English Monosyllabism:Linguistic Facts vs.Linguistic Stereotype

作　　者：曲长亮[1] QU Changliang

机构地区：[1]大连外国语大学英语学院,辽宁大连

出　　处：《语言教育》2024年第3期36-47,共12页Language Education

基　　金：辽宁省教育科学十四五规划项目“数字人文背景下的英语日耳曼词根教学研究”(项目编号:JG22DB188)的阶段成果。

摘　　要：叶斯柏森是语言学领域的达尔文主义者,其所提出的“语言进步论”与达尔文“适者生存观”之间存在微妙联系。本文以叶斯柏森1886至1941年间以英、德、丹等文字撰写的著作为文本依据,以他对英语单音节词音系演化过程的思考为起点,为他的“语言进步论”思想探源,证实“语言进步论”不仅是达尔文主义在语言学领域的反映,更是叶斯柏森研究音系演化史的必然结果。“Progress in language,”the idea put forward by Otto Jespersen,known as a Darwinist in the field of linguistics,has shown its subtle relationship with Charles Darwin’s slogan of“the survival for the fittest.”Based on the texts that Jespersen wrote and published in English,German and Danish from 1886 to 1941,this essay startsfrom a critique of histhoughts on English monosyllabism and explores the sources of his ideas on“progress in language,”in order to prove that progress is not merely a reflection of Darwinism in linguistics,but a natural consequence of Jespersen’s research on the history of phonological evolution.

关 键 词：叶斯柏森 语言进步论 达尔文主义 音系演化 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]