Demetaphorizing or Metaphorizing: A Dynamically Interactive Model of Congruent and Metaphorical Modes of Realization
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摘要: 语言如何从原始阶段发展到当前的水平仍然是个谜团,相关的理论假设不少,其中Halliday提出语言的大部分历史是“去隐喻化”的历史。为了探究语言发展的可能情形,有必要对Halliday的这一思想进行反思。如果把语言种系进化和个体语言发展同时加以考察,那么可以有理由说,人类语言在其进化之初就其体现形式的本质而言是一致性的,语言的发展史不仅仅是一个“去隐喻化”的过程,更是一个隐喻化的进程;人类语言发展可能是从一致式衍化出隐喻式,遵循“隐喻化”和“去隐喻化”的动态交互模式。Abstract: How language evolved from protolanguage to modern language is still a myth although some theories and hypotheses have been put forward to try to uncover it, among which Halliday proposed that much of the history of a language is a history of demetaphorizing.In order to reconsider the possible way of language evolution, it is necessary to observe language evolution in terms of both phylogenesis and ontogenesis.Such observation may be more convincing, according to which language is initially congruent and the history of a language is a history of metaphorizing more than demetaphorizing.The process of language evolution may be one in which the metaphorical mode of realization originates from the congruent one in the initial state of language, and then the congruent and the metaphorical forms develop in a dynamically interactive model.
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