国外认知语言学研究综观

A survey of cognitive linguistics abroad

认知语言学是研究建立在我们对世界的经验以及观察和概念化世界的方式基础之上的人类语言的一门新兴学科，是近年来国外语言学中的热点，其研究范围极其宽广。本文分七个部分介绍了该领域的研究状况：范畴化与典型理论、概念隐喻、意象及其维度、框架理论和脚本理论、拟象性、语法化和认知语用推理。作者认为，２１世纪将是认知语言学的时代，了解国外的研究状况，引进与自创相结合，将对我国的认知语言学研究与发展起到巨大的推动作用。

Cognitive linguistics is the study of language that is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it. It has so wide a scope that the paper can only survey its seven major areas: categorization and prototype theory, conceptual metaphor, imagery and its dimensions, frame and script theories, iconicity,grammaticalization, and cognitive pragmatic inference, by which we can learn the present state of cognitive linguistics abroad.