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1、InG.PalmerandE.Casad(eds.)CognitiveLinguisticsandNon-IndoEuropeanLanguages,Berlin:MoutondeGruyter,2003.HolisticspatialsemanticsofThaiJordanZlatevDepartmentofLinguisticsLundUniversity,SwedenJordan.Zlatev@lucs.lu.se1.IntroductionA(generic)spatialutteranceisanutterancewhichhelpsthelistenerdeterm
2、inethelocationofagivenentity–ifthedescribedsituationisstatic–orelsethetrajectoryofitsmotion.Hence,itcanbeseenasanexplicitorimplicitanswertoawhere-question.ThefollowingarethusexamplesofprototypicalEnglishspatialutterances:Thetoothpasteisontheshelf.Heisgoingtoschool.ShecomesfromtheSouth.Thetrai
3、nwillpassthroughthetunnel.Anapproachtospatialsemanticsthathastheutterance(itselfembeddedindiscourseandabackgroundofpractices)asitsmainunitofanalysis,ratherthantheisolatedword,maybecharacterizedasdialogical(cf.Wold1992)andmoreimportantlyforthepresentcontext–holistic.Suchanapproachaimstodetermi
4、nethesemanticcontributionofeachandeveryelementofthespatialutteranceinrelationtothemeaningofthewholeutterance–adesideratumforsemanticsthatcanbetracedbacktoFrege’s(1953[1884])“contextprinciple”.Onemajoradvantageofsuchanapproachtomore1traditional(cognitive)spatialsemantictheoriesisthatbytakingit
5、spointofdeparturefromthewhole,ratherthanfromtheparts,itdoesnotlimittheanalysistoaparticularlinguisticform(e.gover,cf.Lakoff1987),formclass(e.g.prepositions,cf.Cuyckens1991),ortheoreticallybiasedgrammaticalnotion(e.g.“closed-classelements”cf.Talmy1988).Theconceptualframeworkofsituatedembodimen
6、t(Zlatev1997)impliessuchadialogical,holisticapproachtospatialmeaning,resultinginthetheoryofholisticspatial2semantics(HSS),whichhasbeenappliedtoadiversesetoflanguages.Inthispaper,afterasummaryofthetheoreticalframeworkinSection2,Iwillusethistheorytoanalyzethestructureandsemanticsofspatialuttera
7、ncesinThai.IwilltrytoshowthatHSSallowsaperspicaciousanalysisofthecomplicatedsemanticandsyntacticinterdependenciesbetweenthemembersofanumberofdistinctformclasses,exemplifiedin(1).(1)d´´n?ç$çkmaaca$akkha^aNnaytha^mwalkgo-outcomefromsideincaveMa
