【作者】 夏日光；

【导师】 文旭；

【作者基本信息】 西南大学 ， 课程与教学论， 2010， 博士

【摘要】 省略是自然语言中的普遍现象,其研究在语言哲学、语法学、语义学、语用学、修辞学、心理学等学科中都具有悠久的历史。省略在不同的语篇中执行着不同的功能,这些功能主要有语法功能、修辞功能和衔接功能等。省略具有普遍性、复杂性和跳跃性等特点。长期以来,对外语教师和外语学习者来说,省略一直是教学上的一大难题,尤其是在弱势省略的语篇翻译教学方面,表现得更加突出。主要原因是受传统语言学研究的影响,在省略语篇的理解上出现了片面性,从而导致在分类上拘泥于在语义空位上一对一填补的操作模式,最终无法建立一个令人信服的科学的分类系统,并以此来有效地指导省略语篇的翻译教学。省略的认知语言学研究表明：1)省略的本质是新信息的突显。按照图形—背景理论,已知信息被视为背景,新信息被视为图形,已知信息当作背景被省略,新信息当作图形被突显；2)省略与视角密切相关,省略的非范畴化具有普遍性；3)省略的心理预设为发话者与受话者背景知识的对接；4)理想认知模式(ICMs)是空位语义搜索、定位、筛选与匹配的理论依据。本论文运用认知语言学关于识解的观点来解读省略语篇,完成省略语篇中空位语义的搜索、定位、筛选与匹配,并将研究的成果运用到省略语篇的翻译教学。主要研究以下几个问题：1)省略的本质；2)省略的原则；3)省略认知研究的理论基础；4)省略的范畴化与非范畴化；5)省略的识解；6)省略语篇的翻译教学。通过分析与研究,本论文获得以下主要发现：1)从认知语言学的角度分析,省略是一种信息突显；2)省略与视角密切相关,省略的非范畴化具有普遍性；3)省略是一种心理预设,省略语篇在交际中获得成功,取决于发话者与受话者背景知识的成功对接；4)省略是一种语义空位；5)空位语义具有或然性；6)补译是实现汉英文本等效转换的重要途径。全文由7章组成：第1章为导论。简要阐释省略的概念、特点、判断标准及在语篇中的地位等,并对国内外省略研究现状进行述评,阐述本文的研究思路和结构。第2章讨论省略的原则：1)信息有效性编码原则。强调在编码过程中,省略的运用能使语言精炼,简洁高效；2)省力原则。交际过程中,无论是发话者和受话者,都不但希望交际成功,而且还希望尽量缩小为话语所付出的努力；3)合作原则。在运用省略语篇的交际中,发话者必须充分考虑受话者的知识储备和语境因素；4)关联原则。论述正确理解省略语篇时,必须通过话语和语境的关联性进行推理,以找出话题与语境的最佳关联,以准确填补语义空位。第3章分析省略的认知语言学研究的理论基础。讨论了1)省略的生理学基础——大脑神经网络；2)省略的心理学基础——联结主义网络,阐述的是形式神经元,形式神经元的相互联结通过输入权值,当权植总和大于阀值时,神经元被激活,实现联结功能；3)省略的语言学基础——语义场与语义联想场词汇网络,阐述了词汇之间的语义联系,这种语义关系是产生语义联想的基础,联想能够实现语篇的联结。省略的生理学基础、心理学基础和语言学基础形成了省略理解的语义联想循环模式,即从“大脑神经网络”到“联结主义”,再到“语义场和语义联想场”。该模式形成了省略的认知语言学研究的理论基础。第4章讨论省略的范畴化与非范畴化问题。省略的范畴化与非范畴化的研究,对强势省略和弱势省略的理解和划分提供了理论支持。省略的范畴化研究为强势省略与弱势省略的划分提供了根据；省略的非范畴化研究找到了弱势省略演变的渊源。省略的范畴化研究表明,省略这一范畴具有动态性和连续性,是处在一连续统中。省略只有典型性和非典型性之分。典型性省略的空位语义能够很快从言内语义网络和表达结构上搜索和定位,而非典型性的省略只能从言外背景知识中去联想和推定。典型性的省略是强势省略,非典型性省略是弱势省略,它们具有家族相似性。省略的非范畴化研究论述了省略的模糊性是非范畴化的前提,省略的联想性是非范畴化的起点。第5章探讨省略的识解。运用识解理论中的突显和视角,对省略语篇进行解读。在省略语篇的解读中,受话者不断地调整自己的识解方法,选择不同的视角,采用不同的认知参照点,通过一定的心理路径,搜索语篇中存在的空位语义,找出恰当和自然的意义单位来填补语义空位,从而保障语篇的衔接与连贯。从视角与突显等观点出发来识解省略,符合人们的认知习惯。人们在一个熟知的背景下分析省略的语义空位时,注意到的是只有新信息才会着意突出,已知信息已经潜藏在人们的认知模式里,在省略语篇中作为背景,被安排在语义空位上,这就是省略产生的原因。第6章研究省略语篇的翻译教学。本章运用理想认知模式理论来指导省略语篇中空位语义的转换。理想认知模式理论的运用可以促进语篇的整体理解,促进空位语义中信息的搜索、定位、筛选和匹配等程序的处理。在空位语义的转换中,施动共喻、受动共喻、行为共喻、属性共喻和结构共喻等空位上的语义,都能够以理想认知模式理论为指导,进行一系列认知层面的操作。在省略语篇的翻译教学中,希望教师在以下四个方面予以注意：1)熟悉大脑工作原理,认识神经元的加权学习过程就是提高权值的过程。在教学过程中,教师应鼓励学生掌握基础知识,提高语义联想技能,为在省略语篇的识解过程中快速激活神经元,增进空位语义理解,成功转换省略语篇打下基础；2)在建立语篇省略图式方面,教师应指导学生拓宽知识面,认真对待文化语境中产生的空位语义。因为这类省略是以一定的文化背景、思维方式、行为方式以及价值观念等为基础的,是民族文化的一部分；3)教师应指导学生加强英汉两种语言省略形式的对比研究,如汉语中的施动共喻,以及英语中的富有形态变化的谓语动词等的省略,它们的省略频率之高都较为突出,对这些省略特点应予以关注；4)教师应对汉英思维模式进行探讨,指导学生分析英汉两个民族在认知模式上的异同。第7章为结论与讨论。归纳了论文的主要发现和不足之处。在此基础上,指出了在省略语篇的翻译教学中应侧重思考的几个问题,并对未来研究提出了建议。更多还原

【Abstract】 Ellipsis is ubiquitous in natural language. The study of ellipsis has a long history in the philosophy of language, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, rhetoric, psychology, etc. Ellipsis plays different functions in different texts, such as grammatical function, rhetorical function, cohesive function, etc. The study of ellipsis has become a big problem for the teachers and students for a long time, especially in the teaching of translation of week ellipsis. It is under the influence of traditional linguistic study, the interpretation of ellipsis has become one-sided, people stick to the model of one-to-one semantic gap filling and fail to set up a convincing scientific classification system by which the teaching in translation of ellipsis in the texts can be guided.The cognitive linguistic research on ellipsis has suggested that:1) the nature of ellipsis is the salience of new information. According to the theory of figure-ground, the known information is viewed as ground and the new information as figure, and in this way known information is omitted and new information is highlighted; 2) ellipsis is closely related to perspective, the decategorization of ellipsis is ubiquitous; 3) the presupposition of ellipsis is the docking of background knowledge between the speaker and the hearer; 4) ideal cognitive models(ICMs) are the theoretical bases of meanings in the gap in the process of searching, locating, filtering and matching.With the construal theory in cognitive linguistics as the theoretical ground the present dissertation attempts to analyse the text of ellipsis and its searching, locating, filtering and matching location of the meanings in the gap, and puts the achievements of the research into the teaching of ellipsis text translation. The questions will be discussed as follows:1) the nature of ellipsis; 2) the principles of ellipsis; 3) the theoretical basis of the cognitive study of ellipsis; 4) the categorization and decategorization of ellipsis; 5) the construal of ellipsis; 6) the teaching in translation of the ellipsis text.With the careful study we came up with the following findings:1) with the view of cognitive linguistics ellipsis is the salience of new information; 2) elipsis is closely related to perspective, the decategorization of ellipsis is ubiquitous; 3) ellipsis is presupposition. The success of ellipsis in communication is decided by the successful docking of background knowledge between the speaker and the hearer; 4) ellipsis is a semantic gap; 5) meanings in the gap have got the nature of probability; 6) adding translation is an important way in the realization of equivalent translation between Chinese and English ellipsis in the texts.This dissertation consists of seven chapters:Chapter 1 serves as the introduction. In this chapter, the author briefly discusses the notion, feature, criterion and position of ellipsis, the present research at home and abroard, and the research design and the structure of this dissertation.Chapter 2 deals with the principles of ellipsis:1) coding principle of information validity. It emphasizes conciseness and efficiency of words when ellipsis is used in the course of coding; 2) the principle of least effort. In the communication both the speaker and the hearer hopes not only the success of communication but also the least effort in coding; 3) cooperative principle. According to the principle the speaker should consider the knowledge reserve of the hearer and the context carefully in the communication by using ellipsis in the texts; 4) the principle of relevance. It deals with the reasoning according to the relevance of context in order to find the best relevance between the topic and the context and fill the semantic gap correctly.Chapter 3 comments on the theoretical basis of cognitive linguistics in the study of ellipsis:1) the basis of physiology. It means the neural network of human brains; 2) the basis of psychology. It refers to the network of collectionism, and the function of form neurons. Form neurons connect each other through the imput of weight. When the sum of weight is greater than the threshold the neuron is activated, thus comes the connection; 3) the basis of linguistics, i.e. the lexcical network in the semantic field and semantic associative field. It deals with the semantic relations between words and phrases.The semantic relations are the bases of semantic association which can make a text. The basis of physiology, psychology and linguistics forms a semantic associative cyclic model, namely, the neural network→collectionism→the semantic field and semantic associative field. The model is the theoretical basis of the cognitive study of ellipsis.Chapter 4 discusses the categorization and decategorization of ellipsis.The study can give a strong support to the classification of ellipsis.Categorization serves as the theoretical basis of strong and weak ellipsis and decategorization as the change sources of weak ellipsis. The study of categorization shows that ellipsis has the features of changeability and continuity, and it is in the state of continuum. Ellipsis has the difference of typicality and atypicality. The meanings in the gap of typical ellipsis can be searched and located rapidly from the semantic network and grammatical structure of the words exchanged directly, nevertheless, the atypical ellipsis can only be associated and reasoned from the context. Typical ellipsis is called strong ellipsis and atypical ellipsis weak ellipsis.They have the family resemblance. The study of decategorization shows that ambiguity of ellipsis is the premise of decategorization, and association is its starting point.Chapter 5 deals with the construal of ellipsis. Salience and perspective can help interpret the text of ellipsis.The hearer should choose different ways of construal, perspective and reference points of cognition, try to search and locate the meanings in the gap through some psychological paths, and find some units of natural meanings to fill the gap so that cohesion and coherence of the the ellipsis text can be achieved. It meets people’s custom to construal the ellipsis in the text in the view of salience and perspective. In a familiar context people only pay attention to the salience of new information when analyzing the semantic gaps of ellipsis because the known information in the gaps has been put into people’s cognitive models and used as ground in the text of ellipsis. That is the reason why ellipsis has come into being.Chapter 6 is on the teaching of ellipsis translation in the text. In this chapter transformation of meanings in the gap has been discussed in the theory of ICMs. The application of ICMs can help to interpret, search, locate, filter and match the information in the text of ellipsis. ICMs can also help to fill the semantic gap in the view of cognition, such as in the transformation of subject awareness, object awareness, action awareness, character awareness, and structure awareness. In the teaching of translating the ellipsis text, teachers should pay attention to the four points mentioned below:1) to know how the brain works, and the process of weight adding study of neurons is the one that weight is increased. In the course of teaching teachers should encourage their students to master basic knowledge and improve the semantic associative skills. Teachers should also help the students to understand the meanings in the gap, activate the neurons quickly in the construal of ellipsis texts and lay a good foundation in the translation in this respect; 2) to create schema teachers should help their students to broaden their knowledge, and pay attention to the meanings in the gap in the context of culture which is based on certain culture, the way of thought and behaviour, and values etc.; 3) to teach the students to make a contrastive study about the texts of ellipsis, such as subject awareness in Chinese, and the predicate verb which is very rich in inflective forms in English because frequency of ellipsis of those elements is very high; 4) to make a research about the models of thought between English and Chinese. Teachers should teach their students the similarities and differences about the models of cognition between the two nationalities.Chapter 7 serves as the conclusion and discussion. The major findings and limitations are summarized, and several points in the translation of ellipsis in the texts are mentioned, and suggestions for future research are offered as well.更多还原