摘要
溯因推理是一种"由果溯因"的逆向性逻辑推理方式,是人们在语言认知过程中所采用的基本方法。人们对语言的理解和解释就是在观察的基础上通过假设来回溯原因的推理过程。本文以当代语言学的一些理论和学说为案例,从认知角度考察其建构,发现现代语言学的研究取向和方法基本上为溯因法。研究者从观察到的语言现象出发,回溯其发生的原因并提出假设解释该现象,最后作出新阐释,形成新的理论和观点。
Abduction is a way of backward inference,it is the basic approach that people adopt in language cognition.People s understanding and explanation of language is a process of inference,on the base of their existing experience and knowledge,by which discourse implicature and language phenomena are interpreted.Taking some linguistic theories as studying cases,this essay trace the train of thoughts of some linguists in their theory constructing from cognitive point of view,and finds that abduction is the ba-sic ...
出处
《外语学刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第2期92-95,共4页
Foreign Language Research
关键词
溯因法
语言认知
理论构建
abduction
language cognition
theory construction
