英汉语空间区域范畴对比研究_英语论文

A Contrastive Study of Space Categories Between English and Chinese

摘要

空间范畴是人类最基本的认知范畴之一，一般来说，“空间范畴”和“空间概念”是等同的，但具体来说，其又有细微的差别，概念是指词语的意义范围，但范畴是指事物在认知中的归类。所以空间范畴与认知联系更为紧密，而本文以空间范畴作为研究对象也体现出对空间问题研究的方法和侧重点。本文主要通过对比英语和汉语在表达手段、方位范畴、位移范畴上研究空间范畴中的共性和个性来了解两个不同民族之间的认知共性和差异。

论文主要有包括四个章节，第一章“引言”主要介绍了本文的背景、选题的目的意义和文章框架。在第二章中着重介绍本文所用的理论，介绍了范畴理论、认知理论、空间范畴的分类和前人研究。第三章主要从空间范畴的表达手段、方位范畴、位移范畴三方面的不同来表达英汉语空间区域范畴的的共性与差异。第四章是结论部分。

关键词: 空间范畴；方位范畴；位移范畴

Abstract

Space is a fundamental category in human cognition. Generally speaking, space concepts are the same as space category. However, it also have subtle difference. The space concept refers to the meaning range of words, but the space category refers to things in the cognitive classification, so the space category and cognition are linked more closely. This thesis takes space category as the study objective, but also discusses methods and problems on space research. Comparing space category between English and Chinese, this thesis aims to find out the similarities and differences in space category through the different expression ways of space category, locality category and displacement category. 

The whole thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter One briefly introduces background, the purpose and significance of the study, and the structure of the thesis. Chapter Two presents the theory of categories, the cognitive theory of metaphor, the classification of space category and previous studies. Chapter Three aims to clearly make the contrastive study on space category between English and Chinese through the different expression ways of space category, locality category and displacement category. The last chapter concludes the whole thesis with major findings. 

Key words:  space category   locality category  displacement category