意义的多维性与多维度语义学

The Multidimensionality of Meaning and Multidimensional Semantics

  • 摘要: 自然语言中的某些语言元素的意义与传统定义的真值条件无关,人们无法判定它们何时为真,但是却知道在什么语境下使用它们是恰当的。这类语言现象对传统的真值语义学提出了挑战,为语用和语义的分界提出了新课题。多维度语义学承认意义的多维性,把意义分为描述与表达两个维度,提出句子为真的条件是:当且仅当它描述维度的信息和表达维度的信息同时为真。这个理论框架把主观评价内容纳入了语义学的研究范围,为这一内容的形式化提供了可行的操作方案,缓解了表达意义和真值意义这两种张力之间的冲突,为与主观性相关的语言现象的语义研究提供了新的视角。

     

    Abstract: Many linguistic elements in natural languages don't contribute truth-conditional content, but language users know under what circumstances they can be felicitously used.These phenomena pose some non-trivial challenge for truth-conditional semantics and raise questions about the exact boundary between semantics and pragmatics.To cope with these phenomena, a multidimensional semantics has been put forth.The theory is multidimensional in the sense that descriptive meaning and expressive meaning are fundamentally different but receive a unified logical treatment.Compared to traditional formal semantic theories, Multidimensional Semantics not only re-defines the boundary between semantics and pragmatics, bringing to light a variety of neglected phenomena that used to be assumed to fall into the pragmatic domain, but also provides a formal means to investigate the semantic nature of the evasive subjective meaning in natural languages.

     

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