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1、综观语言科学的发展史,从高度抽象层面来看,其间总是交织着形式与功能两种理论观点的对峙与竞争,由此产生的不同学术观点、理论流派和描述方法,成为语言学发展的原动力,推动着整个学科不断向前。本世纪七十年代以后,这种对立愈演愈烈,形成所谓“索绪尔悖论”,在关注焦点和研究内容上体现为“内置语言”研究与“外置语言”研究之间的差别。就理论分野而言,社会语言学研究属于功能一派。在实际使用过程中,语言现象与社会文化因素发生交互作用之时,语言代码不再仅仅表示单纯语言学上的符号意义,而是蕴涵着复杂的社会因素和深刻的文化意义,语言学研究有必要对此进行描述与解释。七十年代末,Chomsky 将社会语言学研究喻为采集蝴蝶
2、标本的工作,其重要性无法同理论语言学相提并论。二十余年之后,乔氏改变了当初的看法,声称从不怀疑社会语言学研究在语言科学中的合法地位。社会语言学研究的意义,还表现在促进课程建设、重视应用研究、繁荣语言学研究这三个方面。社会语言学自问世以来,在语言学研究发达的西方国家受到重视,同句法学、音系学,以及语义学一起,成为不少大学语言学系的核心课程。此外,社会语言学应用性研究也引起学术界广泛的重视,分别在法律语言、广告语言、诊断语言以及广义的语言教学与研究等领域得到充分实现。最后,社会语言学试图为语言实际使用中普遍存在的语言变异现象提供一种整合研讨模式与理论解释,特别是通过考察各种语言变体形式与社会文化影
3、响之间的关系,旨在揭示言语行为与社会文化因素的互动模式,并对变异现象从多维角度进行说明与解释。让我们举一个常见的英语用法实例,来说明社会语言学对语言学研究的贡献。众所周知,反意问句是英语特有的现象。从结构上讲,反意问句有两种句法形式:1) This is an interesting book, isnt it?2) This isnt an interesting book, is it?这两种句法结构可视为同一语言现象的不同变体形式两者可以在任何情况下互用,而不影响意思的表达。这一结构从形式上可以进一步表述为下列规则:Tag Question Rule in EnglishNP + VP,
4、 VP + NP?| + negative | | - negative | | + pronominal | - negative | | + negative |但是从功能上讲,特别是在口语当中,同样都是反意问句,通过使用不同语调所表达的底蕴却大不相同。传统的解释是:句子后半部分读作轻声调时,表示信息咨询;句子后半部分读若降调时,含有期望对方确认之意。七十年代以来,随着社会语言学研究的发展,对这一语言现象及其功能特征有了新的认识。首先,来自语言性别差异的研究表明,反意问句从语言功能上讲多含有“犹豫不决” 、 “企盼认可” 、 “避免冲突”等底蕴,与西方文化对于女性社会角色的认定相吻合,故多
5、为女子所使用。其次,来自方言变体的研究表明,在英国文化中反意问句常常用来表示“纡尊降贵”的言外之意,暗含明显的优越感底蕴。最后,来自法庭语境的调查还表明,反意问句不是女性的专利其使用频率受到社会语境的制约和角色身份的支配,与其说是“女子英语”的表现,不如说是“弱式英语”的特征。由此可见,社会语言学为语言学研究提供了一种新的观察视野、新的分析方法,从而丰富了语言科学的研究内容,加深了我们对语言本质的了解。Looking at the history of scientific development languages, from the highly abstract level, durin
6、g which are always intertwined with the theory of form and function of two kinds of conceptPoint of confrontation and competition, resulting in different academic perspectives, theories and describe the method of genres to become linguistic developmentThe driving force to promote the subject as a wh
7、ole continue to move forward. After the seventies of this century, this opposition intensified, the formation of theThat “Saussures paradox“, in focus and research content, an expression of “built-in language“ research and “external language“Study the difference between. On the theory of distinction
8、, the social function of linguistic research are faction. In the actual use ofProcess, the linguistic phenomena and socio-cultural factors, interaction occurs when the language code is no longer just that simple linguisticOn a symbolic significance, but implies a complex social factors and the profo
9、und cultural significance - the need for linguistic researchThis description and explanation. The late seventies, Chomsky described as the social linguistic research work of butterfly specimens collected, And its importance can not be compared with the theoretical linguistics. More than 20 years lat
10、er, Qiao Shi has changed the original view, claiming thatNever doubted the social linguistic research in the language of science in legal status.The social significance of linguistic research, but also in the promotion of curriculum construction, emphasis on applied research, to study the prosperity
11、 of LinguisticsThree areas. Since the inception of Sociolinguistics in the Linguistics developed Western countries be taken seriously, with sentences of Law, Phonology, and semantics, together with a number of the Department of Linguistics, University of the core curriculum. In addition, social ling
12、uistics should beWith a wide range of research also attracted academic attention, respectively, in the legal language, advertising language, diagnosis, language, and generalLanguage teaching and research in such fields as fully realized. Finally, social linguistics, the actual use of language in an
13、attempt to PuOver the existence of the phenomenon of language variation to provide an integrated model and discuss theoretical explanation, in particular by looking at a variety of languagesVariations of form and the social and cultural impact of the relationship between the behavior and speech to r
14、eveal the interaction model of social and cultural factors, And the phenomenon of variation from the description and interpretation of multi-dimensional perspective.Let us take a common English usage examples to illustrate the social linguistics contribution to the study of linguistics. Public of th
15、e WeekI know, anti-sense questions with the English language-specific phenomenon. Structurally speaking, the anti-sense questions with two syntax forms:1) This is an interesting book, isnt it?2) This isnt an interesting book, is it?Syntactic structure of these two phenomena may be regarded as the sa
16、me language in different variations - the two can cross in any circumstancesUse, without affecting the expression of meaning. This structure can be further from the formal presentation of the following rules:Tag Question Rule in EnglishNP + VP, VP + NP?| + Negative | | - negative | | + pronominal | - Negative | | + negative |But from the functional sense, especially in the spoken language among the same questions with both an
