Firthian

弗斯式的

Characteristic of, or a follower of, the linguistic principles of J.R. Firth, professor of General Linguistics in the University of London (1944-56), and the formative influence on the development of linguistics in Great Britain (the “London School” of Linguistics). A central notion is Polysysemicism, an approach to linguistic analysis based on the view that language patterns cannot be accounted for in terms of a single system of analytic principles and categories (monosystemic linguistics), but that different systems may need to be set up at different places within a given level of description.

指詹姆士·鲁伯特·弗斯的语言学理论特点，或指这种理论的追随者。弗斯，伦敦大学普通语言学教授，对英国语言学的发展，特别是语言学“伦敦学派”的形成有重要影响。这一学派的中心观念是多系统主义，对语言分析的基本观点是，语言型式的说明不能仅靠一个分析原则和范畴的单一系统（单系统语言学），而要靠在某一描写层次上给不同的部位建立不同的系统。