摘要
本研究考察以dead为代表的英语消极情感强化词的语义演变过程。借助《牛津英语词典》和美国历史英语语料库中的数据,本文分析了dead+ADJ强化构式的形符频率和类符频率的历时变化,并采用自然语言处理技术的词嵌入方法呈现dead的搭配变化过程。研究结果显示:(1)dead经历了由消极情感词演变为强化词的语法化过程;(2)dead语法化过程的认知动因是概念转喻和隐喻。论文总结了强化词由消极情感义演变而来的一般过程,并指出概念转喻和隐喻在词义演变过程中的关键作用。
This study presents an investigation into the semantic change of negative emotive intensifiers in English,taking dead as an example.Using data from the Oxford English Dictionary and the Corpus of Historical American English,this paper examines the diachronic change of the“dead+ADJ”construction in terms of its token and type frequencies.By employing word embeddings,a technique in natural language processing,the paper identifies the change of the collocates of dead in meaning.This study finds that.(1)dead has undergone grammaticalization,transitioning from a negative emotive word to an intensifier;and(2)the grammaticalization of dead is motivated by cognitive factors:conceptual metonymy and metaphor.This paper summarizes the process of the emergence of intensifiers from negative emotional words,and generalizes the key role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor in the change of word meaning.
作者
邵斌
常钰炫
SHAO Bin;CHANG Yuxuan
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第6期86-95,148,共11页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
基金
国家社科基金重点项目“基于语料库的汉英动名兼类词历时演变对比研究(1919—2019)”(项目编号:20AYY001)的阶段性研究成果。
关键词
消极情感强化词
语义演变
词嵌入
语法化
negative emotive intensifiers
semantic change
word embeddings
grammaticalization
