从范畴观的演化看现代语言学之发展

范畴化是现代语言学和相邻学科过去半个世纪发展的核心问题,范畴观从经典形态向类典型形态的演化反映了语言学思维从离散性、还原性、静态性为基本假设的结构主义自主论向更具连续性、非还原性、动态性特征的非自主论的深刻转变。认知语言学和功能主义语言学从中孕育和发展,而这种转变的内在动因是语言学思想对于语言具体完整性的根本追求。新世纪的语言学日益成为以整体性、有机性、涌现性及动态性为特征的复杂性科学,对建立在经典范畴观之上的语言学基础理论体系提出了重大挑战。

Modern Linguistics:What Categorization Reveals about Its Developments

Categorization has been the crucial issue in modern linguistics and neighboring sciences over the last 50 years.The change of categorization from the classical view to the prototype view reveals a fundamental change in linguistic theorizing from the discrete,reductionist,static assumptions characteristic of the autonomous model of the structuralist tradition to a more continuous,non-reductionist,and dynamic model of a non-autonomous type.Cognitive linguistics and functionalist linguistics are the paradigm t...