Abstract：The meteorological environment shapes weather expressions in human languages and thus provides explanatory values for linguistic typology. Past decades have witnessed much research on the effects of the meteorological environment on the phonetic/phonological and lexical aspects of weather expressions. However, not much research has been conducted on the grammatical aspect. This study proposes an interdisciplinary paradigm for research on weather expressions with more foci on their grammatical diversity. Under this paradigm, the diversity of weather expressions can be accounted for in two major steps: parameterized classification and interdisciplinary explanation. First, the collected data of weather expressions are classified and labelled with parameters including encoding type, transitivity, directionality, and nominal morpheme usage, to obtain a system of typological patterns. Next, such patterns are analysed with the theories, methods, and data from linguistics, meteorology, cultural studies, and cognitive sciences, and with tools such as geographic information systems, so that the underlying intra- and extra-linguistic influencing factors can be discovered. Several case studies of Sino-Tibetan languages demonstrate how the paradigm can be employed. This promising framework has extended the typological studies on weather expressions and identified linguistic clues to cognitive mechanisms and text information mining, and shall yield more valuable findings with an enriched explanatory toolbox and expanded data.
董思聪. 天气表达的跨学科研究范式[J]. 语言战略研究, 2024, 9(2): 89-96.
Dong Sicong. Towards an Interdisciplinary Paradigm for Research on Weather Expressions. , 2024, 9(2): 89-96.
