Holistic spatial semantics of Thai
Holistic spatial semantics of Thai
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泰语的整体空间语义
DOI：
10.1515/9783110197150.7.305
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2003
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J. Zlatev
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J. Zlatev
（通用的）空间话语是一种话语，可帮助听众确定给定实体的位置 - 如果所述情况是静态的，则可以将其运动的轨迹视为明确或隐性的答案。因此，以下是原型的英语言语：牙膏在架子上具有语音（本身嵌入了话语和实践背景）为其主要分析单位而不是孤立词的空间语义的方法，可以将其特征在于数字（参见Wold 1992），而在当前环境中更重要的是 - 整体方法。弗雷格（1953年[1884]）“上下文原理”。对特定语言形式的分析（例如，参见Lakoff 1987），形式类别（例如介词，参见Cuyckens 1991），或者在神职人员上有偏见的语法通知（例如，“封闭式” elements” cf. Talmy 1988）。在本文中，在第2节中的理论框架摘要中，我将使用该理论分析泰国的空间话语的结构和语义。 HSS允许对许多不同形式类的成员之间的复杂语义和句法相互依赖性进行个人分析，例如（1）中。
A (generic) spatial utterance is an utterance which helps the listener determine the location of a given entity – if the described situation is static – or else the trajectory of its motion. Hence, it can be seen as an explicit or implicit answer to a where-question. The following are thus examples of prototypical English spatial utterances: The toothpaste is on the shelf. He is going to school. She comes from the South. The train will pass through the tunnel. An approach to spatial semantics that has the utterance (itself embedded in discourse and a background of practices) as its main unit of analysis, rather than the isolated word, may be characterized as dialogical (cf. Wold 1992) and more importantly for the present context – holistic. Such an approach aims to determine the semantic contribution of each and every element of the spatial utterance in relation to the meaning of the whole utterance – a desideratum for semantics that can be traced back to Frege’s (1953 [1884]) “context principle”. One major advantage of such an approach to more traditional (cognitive) spatial semantic theories is that by taking its point of departure from the whole, rather than from the parts, it does not limit the analysis to a particular linguistic form (e.g over, cf. Lakoff 1987), form class (e.g. prepositions, cf. Cuyckens 1991), or theoretically biased grammatical notion (e.g. “closed-class elements” cf. Talmy 1988). The conceptual framework of situated embodiment (Zlatev 1997) implies such a dialogical, holistic approach to spatial meaning, resulting in the theory of holistic spatial semantics (HSS), which has been applied to a diverse set of languages. In this paper, after a summary of the theoretical framework in Section 2, I will use this theory to analyze the structure and semantics of spatial utterances in Thai. I will try to show that HSS allows a perspicacious analysis of the complicated semantic and syntactic interdependencies between the members of a number of distinct form classes, exemplified in (1).