【作者】 刘欣；

【导师】 于忠喜；

【作者基本信息】 南京师范大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2004， 硕士

【摘要】 语言是人类社会最重要的交际工具，是人类思维的工具，也是社会上传递信息的工具。对于语言的理解离不开语义。当代语言学突破“语音、词汇、语法”三要素的局限，认为语言是音义结合的词汇和语法体系，十分重视语义的研究。而对于语义的研究又离不开语境的因素。语境就是语言环境的简称。近年来语境学成为现代语言学中发展最快的前沿领域之一。本文则试图探讨语境中的一个因素—文化语境对语义变化的影响。 第一部分简要介绍了这篇论文的主要内容及观点。 第二部分回顾了语境理论的产生、发展的过程以及研究现状。 第三部分着重介绍了语境的概念、分类，语境和语言的关系以及语境和意义的关系。 第四部分重点介绍了文化语境。主要内容包括：文化，语言，文化和语言的关系，文化语境的概念及分类。 第五部分首先介绍了语义的相关内容：意义可以分为语法意义和词汇意义等。大量的篇幅主要是以China词源探讨为实例，阐述了语境和语义变迁的相互关系：文化语境在一定程度上决定了语义的变迁，同时语义也折射了语境的改变。更多还原

【Abstract】 Language is the most important communicative tool of the society. Human beings uselanguage to think and deliver information in society. We cannot understand what aperson says, if we haven’t learnt the language. Contemporary linguists break throughthe limitation that phonetic, lexicon and grammar are three essential factors oflanguage. They believe that language is considered as the system of arbitrary vocalsymbols used for human communication. People cannot do the study on semanticswithout context. In recent years, the study on context has developed very fast and hasbecome one of the most favorable topics in linguistics. This dissertation attempts toinvestigate the influence of cultural context on variation of meaning.Part One is a brief introduction to the main content and viewpoint of this thesis.Part Two reviews the developing process of context and the contemporary situation ofthe study on context.Part Three mainly introduces the concept, the classification of context, therelationship between context and language and the relationship between context andmeaning.Part Four introduces cultural context in details. It includes some information ofculture and language, the relationship between culture and language, the concept andthe classification of cultural context.Part Five investigates the relationship between context and the variation of meaning:context determines the variation of meaning in some sense, while meaning reflectscontext. The origin of the term China is taken as an example. Types of meaning andthe variation of meaning are as well introduced.更多还原