小品词-UP-语义的认知语言学分析

The Sense of the Particle UP: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis

英语短语动词中使用频率最高的小品词是-UP-。传统认为它与英语习语中的介词和副词一样,其语义具有不可分析性。根据物象与背景理论中-UP-的意象图式,它的语义在短语动词中具有可分析性,其基本含义与事物从低级到高级或从低处到高处的移动相关,在短语动词中有13个义项,其中包括其概念隐喻变义,它们对短语动词的语义产生积极的影响。

The particle UP is most frequently employed in English phrasal verbs, and its sense is traditionally considered unanalyzeable as prepositions and adverbs in English idioms. However, its sense can actually be analyzed according to tile image schema in the Figure and Ground Theory, and its basic sense refers to the movement of something from a lower to a higher level or place. It features in phrasal verbs with thirteen main meanings including its conceptual metaphorical extensio~.s and they have positive influence on the sense of phrasal verbs.