本文基于汉语口语表达,同时结合访谈数据,对内含多个子事件的施事性因果链的注意视窗开启模式和概念接合模式进行考察。研究发现,就注意视窗开启而言,施事性因果链共呈现五种视窗开启模式,不同模式在开启视窗的子事件类型上存在差异,但模式内子事件开启视窗的顺序都遵循因果链序列中子事件的布列状况;说话人自身的身体体验对视窗开启模式的选择具有影响。就概念接合而言,施事性因果链共呈现四种概念接合模式,模式之间的差异体现在开启视窗的子事件的组合方式上;开启视窗的子事件在发生顺序上的邻近程度对子事件的组合方式具有影响。

Based on the spoken Chinese and the interview data, this paper explores the patterns of windowing of attention and conceptual splicing of the agentive causal chain that contains multiple sub-events. In terms of the windowing of attention, it is found that the agentive causal chain presents five patterns of windowing and they differ in the types of sub-events which are windowed, but the order of windowing in each pattern follows the arrangement of sub-events in the causal chain. In addition, the speaker’s physical experience has an impact on the choice of patterns of windowing. In terms of patterns of conceptual splicing, it is found that the agentive causal chain presents four patterns of conceptual splicing and they differ in the way the windowed sub-events are grouped. The degree of contiguity in the sequence between the windowed sub-events has an impact on the grouping of the windowed sub-events.