Tertiary Response

第三反应

A term introduced into linguistics by Leonard Bloomfield to refer to the views people display when their utterances about language (their secondary responses) are themselves subjected to evaluation. For example, people who say, ‘That dialect is ugly / primitive’, etc., are making a secondary response; if this is disputed, then their attempt to explain the basis of their statement (or, indeed, their general emotional reaction) would constitute a tertiary response.

伦纳德·布龙菲尔德引入语言学的术语，指人们对关于语言的评价（第二反应）的评价。例如，有人说“那种方言真难听/纯朴”，这是做出第二反应；如果对此加以批驳，那么对批驳依据的解释（实际也包括一般的感情反应）就成为第三反应。