从人类语言学的视角看仪式和语言

把语言视作一种交际工具、一种思维模式、一种文化实践,即一种行为形式的语言观,使得这门边缘学科能够创造性地继续影响它所吸收养分的人文社会学科。从人类语言学这一视角探讨仪式和语言的关系以及仪式语言的特点,能帮助我们更好地理解语言对于人类的意义。

On the Relationship between Rituals and Language in Terms of Anthropology

According to linguistic anthropology,a marginal discipline,language is a communicative instrument,a mode of thinking,and a cultural practice or a form of action.This idea has been exerting influences on other subjects of social sciences and humanities from which linguistic anthropology draws its sustenance.The research into characteristics of ritual language and the relationship between rituals and language from the perspective of anthropology is of great significance to the understanding of language to human being.