语篇回指的认知语言学探索_许余龙语篇回指的认知语言学探索_许余龙.pdf

2002 年第 1 期 外 国 语 总第137 期 No.1, January 2002 Journal of Foreign Languages General Serial No.137 文章编号：1004-5139 （2002 ）01-0028-10 中图分类号：H0 文献标识码：A 语篇回指的认知语言学探索 许余龙 （上海外国语大学英语学院，上海 200083 ） 摘 要：本文在简要介绍了Ariel 的“语言学的、认知的”可及性理论和van Hoek 以Langacker 的认知语法 为框架的回指规约理论的基础上，提出了一个以可及性和主题性为基本概念的“神经认知语言学”回指确认 机制，旨在阐释人们是如何在一组可能的理解中选择所期望的理解的。可及性是由回指语表达的关于指称对 象可及程度的信息，而主题性是由先行语表达的反映潜在先行语显著性的信息。作者认为，这两个名词性词 语表达的篇章语义信息提供了回指确认的最重要、最基本的信息，是理解语篇回指现象的关键。 关键词：语篇回指；回指确认；可及性；主题性；认知语言学 Discourse Anaphora Resolution: A Cognitive Linguistic Exploration XU Yu -long (College of English, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China) Abstract: After a brief review of Ariel’s “linguistic, cognitive” theory of Accessibility for the understanding of discourse anaphora and van Hoek’s model of constraints on pronominal anaphora anchored in the framework of Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar, this paper proposes a “neurocognitive linguistic” anaphora resolution mechanism based on the two concepts of Accessibility and Topicality, aiming at providing an explanation of how people choose the intended referent from among the possible ones. Accessibility is the information provided by the anaphor, indicating the relative ease or difficulty with which the referent can be accessed; whereas Topicality is the information provided by a nominal expression, indicating its relative prominence in competing for the antecedent-hood. These two types of discourse semantic meaning expressed by nominals constitute the essential information people use in discourse anaphora resolution. Key words: disco