从认知语言学角度浅析多义词的形成_英语论文

A Brief Study on Forming of Polysemes from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

摘要

无论是英语还是汉语中，都存在着大量的同义词，词汇的多义性也是最常见，最重要的语义现象。在过去的几个世纪中，很多语言学派都致力于多义词性的研究，但是他们倾向于关注多义词形成的外在原因以及多义词与同形异义词之间的关系，从而忽视了探索这种语义现象的本质。本文以认知语言学为基础，首先研究了词汇多义性的理论性框架结构，然后在这个框架的指导下，利用实例研究系统化地讨论多义词在形成中的本质特点。最后，本文从文化的角度阐述了文化发展对多义词的形成造成的影响。

关键词：多义词；认知语言学；理论框架

Abstract

There are numerous polysemous words in both English and Chinese, and lexical polysemy also is the most common and important semantic phenomenon. Many linguistic schools were devoted to polysemy study in the past few centuries, but they tended to focus on the external cause of polysemy’s formation and the relation between polysemous words and homonyms, thus neglecting to explore the essence of this linguistic phenomenon. Based on the fundamental theory of cognitive linguistics, this paper firstly analyzes the theoretical framework of lexical polysemy, and then systematically discusses the essential characteristics in the formation of polysemous words by means of empirical study under the guidance of this theoretical framework. The thesis finally states the effect of cultural development on the formation of polysemous words in the light of culture. 

Keywords: polysemy; cognitive linguistic; theoretical framework