On the Recursion of Syntax and Discourse Structure in Linguistics and the Recursion of Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting
Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v1i2.209
Abstract
A linguistic recursion refers to the ability of a phrase element to be nested (that is, dominated) into another element that contains the same category. Transformational generative grammar and systemic-functional linguistics both involve the form of "recursion", which is also explored in subsequent studies and analyses that go beyond "syntax" to "discourse structure". Taking traditional Chinese landscape painting as an example, the phenomenon of "recursion" often appears in artistic works. Therefore, in addition to logic, mathematics, linguistics and other disciplines, recursion is also reflected in the humanistic category of art, which is a universal dynamic mechanism in human thinking. The recursion of language and landscape painting is rooted in their structure and the holographic structure of the universe. This paper attempts to enumerate and discuss the similarities and differences between recursive phenomena in linguistic and artistic categories and grasp their basic laws and forms of change.
Keywords
recursion, embedding, systemic-functional syntax, discourse structure, landscape painting recursion phenomenon, universal structure congruence
Full Text
PDF - Viewed/Downloaded: 27 TimesIndexation
Download Index RecordReferences
[2] Chomsky N. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press; 1965.
[3] Halliday M A K. Class in relation to the axes of chain and choice in language. Linguistics. 1963; (2): 5-15.
[4] Labov W. Language in the Inner City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 1972.
[5] Hoey M. On the Surface of Discourse. London: Allen and Unwin; 1983.
[6] Stubbs M. Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell; 1983.
[7] Liu Runqing. Western Schools of Linguistics. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press; 1997.
[8] Wang Yong, Huang Guowen. Recursion in Discourse Structure. Foreign Language Teaching and Research. 2006; 38(5): 288-295.
[9] Qian Guanlian. On Recursiveness of Language and Its Origin. Journal of Foreign Languages. 2001; (3): 8-14.
[10] Wang Cunzhen, Yan Chunyou. Cosmic Holographic Unification. Jinan: Shandong People's Publishing House; 1995.
[11] Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Translated by Chen Shouji, Ling Fuhua. Shanghai: Shanghai Far East Publishing House; 1998.
[12] John Briggs, David Peter. Seven Lessons in Chaos. Translated by Chen Zhong and Jin Wei. Beijing: Peking University Press; 2004.
[13] Wang Bomin, Ren Daobin. Painting Integration. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Press; 2002.
[14] Wang Bomin. Edited Quotations of Huang Binhong. Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House; 1961.
Copyright © 2020 Wenqing Li
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License