儿童书面语中空间维度词“大/小”使用的认知发展

Cognitive Development of the Use of Spatial Dimensionality Words “Big/Small” in Children's Literary Language

以认知语言学的词义分析理论和隐喻理论为基础,运用认知的观点和方法,分析了1145名中小学生108万余字随堂作文中七对空间维度词的出现时间、使用频率及“大/小”的隐喻映射域,探讨儿童抽象概念和空间概念发展之间的关系。

This paper is based on the theories of lexical semantics and metaphor of cognitive linguistics. By using the views and methods of cognitivism, this article analyses the appearance orders of seven spatial dimensionality words, their frequency and the mapping domains of metaphor of the “big/small” in the compositions over 1.08 million words, which written on class by 1145 primary and middle school students. Especially this paper probes into the relationship between the development of abstract conceptions and space conceptions.