学术界普遍认为,乔姆斯基的“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”是一个合法但不合义的句子。持这一观点的学者仅从词语最典型的意义角度来解读,未充分考虑词语的多义性。采用不同的语言观为原则会得出不同的结论。如果借用语境概念,通过多义解读和语境因素,这句话不仅表义,而且在特定场合能产生修辞效果。 It is generally accepted in academia that Chomsky’s “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” Is a legal but non-meaningless sentence. Scholars holding this point of view only from the most typical sense of the word to interpret, did not fully consider the ambiguity of words. Using different linguistic concepts as principles leads to different conclusions. If borrowed the notion of context, through polysemic interpretation and contextual considerations, the sentence is not only nominal but also produces rhetorical effects on specific occasions.