语言相对论与认知语言学:语言—思维相关性的两种立场
Linguistic Relativity and Cognitive Linguistics:Two Positions on the Language-thinking Correlation
蒋国辉1
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摘要
语言和思维、语言和人能够认识的世界有什么相关性,是认知语言学和语言相对论都在关注的研究领域.只是这两个理论对这种相关性的解释,是对立的.认知语言学认为概念在语言之外形成,语言只是表达已经形成的概念;语言相对论则认为,概念只能在语言中形成.在没有大脑神经科学直观实验数据作出最终检验时,这两种解释都不过是假说.在这个前提下,将它们放在一起对比研究,我们至少可以比较这两种理论的观察充分性和描写充分性.
Abstract
The correlation between language and thinking,language and the world that people are able to grasp is a scientific topic which cognitive linguistics and linguistic relativity are both engaging in.However,the explanations of this correlation from the two theories are largely opposite.Cognitive linguistics holds that thought is formed outside language,and language only expresses al-ready formed thought;linguistic relativity postulates that thought can only be formed in language.In the absence of reliable intui-tive experimental data from neuroscience which could conclusively exam this correlation occurring in the final analysis in human brain,both explanations are not more than hypotheses.Under this premise,by putting them together for a comparative study,we can at least compare the observational adequacy and descriptive adequacy of these two theories.
关键词
认知语言学/语言相对论/思维/语言/范畴/假说Key words
cognitive linguistics/linguistic relativity/thinking/language/category/hypothesis引用本文复制引用
基金项目
教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目(23JJD740001)
出版年
2024
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NSTL
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