论文标题
隐喻语言的变化是自组织的批判性
Metaphorical Language Change Is Self-Organized Criticality
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论文摘要
解决隐喻语言变化的驱动问题的一种方法是在具有先行条件的情况下提供隐喻结构和生成规则的统计概况。基于语言视图的论点，以及隐喻的动态视图，本文认为隐喻语言变化有资格作为一个自组织的批判性状态，而隐喻的语言表达方式可以作为与时空相关性的分形相位。同步，这些隐喻表达式自组织成一个自相似，比例不变的分形，后者遵循幂律分布。从时间上讲，远距离相互依赖性通过语言系统内在的转换规则来限制自组织过程。该论点在论文中得到了大规模直接直接选择的十二个随机选择的中国动词隐喻的统计分析。
One way to resolve the actuation problem of metaphorical language change is to provide a statistical profile of metaphorical constructions and generative rules with antecedent conditions. Based on arguments from the view of language as complex systems and the dynamic view of metaphor, this paper argues that metaphorical language change qualifies as a self-organized criticality state and the linguistic expressions of a metaphor can be profiled as a fractal with spatio-temporal correlations. Synchronously, these metaphorical expressions self-organize into a self-similar, scale-invariant fractal that follows a power-law distribution; temporally, long range inter-dependence constrains the self-organization process by the way of transformation rules that are intrinsic of a language system. This argument is verified in the paper with statistical analyses of twelve randomly selected Chinese verb metaphors in a large-scale diachronic corpus.
