汉语象声词理据初探

象声词是人类语言系统中的一部分,其能指和所指之间的非任意性历来被人们认为是语言系统外部的现象而未被重视。然而,在汉语词汇中,象声词不仅具有语言的外部理据,而且还具有声音象征、形态、语义、造字等内部理据性,应是人类语言系统的有机组成部分。

Research into onomatopoeia evidence in Chinese

Onomatopoeia is one part of human language system. The unarbitrariness of the signifying and the signified has not been taken seriously, for it has long been regarded as a phenomenon outside language system. Nevertheless, in Chinese vocabulary, onomatopoeia not only have external evidence of language, but also have internal evidence, such as vocal symbelical, morphological, semantic and character - making evidence, so it should be one organic part of language system.