Access,Activation,and Overlap:Focusing on the Differential

作     者：Ronald W.Langacker 

作者机构：University of CaliforniaSan DiegoU.S.A. 

出 版 物：《外国语》 (Journal of Foreign Languages)

年 卷 期：2012年第35卷第1期

页      面：2-25页

核心收录：

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 0501[文学-中国语言文学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：attention conceptual overlap discourse dynamicity seriality vs.hierarchy 

摘      要：As a long term goal,Cognitive Grammar envisages a unified account of linguistic structure,processing,and discourse.A key requirement is that it properly reflect the dynamicity of language,in all its aspects(including grammar).Consisting as it does in patterns of activity,language is something that happens: it unfolds through time,and how it does so is essential for its *** structure involves the complex interplay of serial and hierarchical *** theory has generally overemphasized the latter,as witnessed by the predominant role of grammatical constituency based on the metaphor of composition(building a complex structure out of smaller pieces).More promising for a unified treatment of structure,processing,and discourse is an alternative metaphor,in which a moving window of attention allows serial access to complex conceptions that are mostly already in *** processing proceeds concurrently on different time scales,in windows of different *** provides a dynamic basis for hierarchical *** arises when conceptions accessed in windows on one time scale figure in a distinct and more elaborate conception(with its own,emergent properties) accessed in a single window on a larger time *** on the alternative metaphor,an approach is outlined that features serial access,windows of attention,levels of activation,and conceptual *** is then applied,in exploratory fashion,to a number of grammatical *** access-and-activation approach directly accommodates reference point relationships,the basis for possessive and topic *** lends itself quite well to the characterization of informational focus,marked in English by unreduced *** requisite descriptive notions are then extended and adapted for ellipsis,which has rather different *** same notions prove useful for handling problematic aspects of coordinate ***,they provide a straig