摘要
本文分析和讨论了意义研究领域中的自然语义元语言理论的语义启动和文化脚本概念。语义启动为语义分析提供了新思路,对于分析语言的核心意义具有重要作用。文化脚本及其分析方法有助于发现蕴涵在复杂语言现象背后的语义共性,揭示不同文化的特质,为跨文化交际研究拓展了新的视野。论文概要介绍了中国学者通过语料库方法对英语的语义启动进行检索分析和用实验方法对文化脚本进行实验的结果,初步证明了语义启动的普遍性和文化脚本的文化分析解释力。
The present article analyses and discusses the concepts of semantic prime and cultural script in Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory developed by Wierzbicka. It is pointed out that semantic prime can provide new methods for semantic analysis and has significant roles in analysing the core meanings of languages. It is suggested the concept of cultural script and its application are useful in discovering the semantic universals entailed in the various complicated language phenomena and in exploring the different cultural traits; cultural script can also expand the horizon in cross-cultural communication studies. The paper briefs the results and findings of one tentative research on semantic primes and cultural scripts based on corpus study and psycholinguistic experiment. It is preliminarily found that semantic prime is language-universal and cultural script is powerful for explaining cultural characters.
出处
《外国语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2003年第5期27-34,共8页
Journal of Foreign Languages
基金
广东省哲学社会科学2002年度规划项目02G78号。
关键词
语义启动
文化脚本
语义共性
跨文化交际
词汇
semantic primes
cultural script
lexicon
cross-cultural communication
