英语VN+as+X构式的认知解读

A Cognitive Semantic Analysis on VN+as+X Construction

Langacker和Goldberg确立的构式标准为界定VN+as+X结构的构式地位提供了依据。作为兰氏理论下的语言单位,as+X在形式上的灵活性表明它是不可通过其他构式预测和推导的,其意义也并非由构成该构式的成分决定的,它有着独立的构式义。从认知的角度观察,VN+as+X构式的核心义通过意象图式变体、隐喻等机制的作用可以得到拓展而生发出更多的意义,各意义间相互联系,存在内部统一性。对VN+as+X构式义的认知分析为较全面地认识复合及物结构及剖析其他语言构式义提供了有益的指导。

The criteria for constructions formulated by Langacker and Goldberg have provided guiding principles for the recognition of VN ＋ as ＋ X as a construction. As a Langackerian linguistic unit, as ＋ X is at the same time a construction,whose form and meaning can never be predicted from either its constituents or other constructions because of its flexibility in form and independent meaning when treated as a whole. From a cognitive perspective, the VN ＋ as ＋ X construction is characterized with its central meaning as well as numerous extended senses related to the central meaning, arising from the operations of image schema transformations and metaphorical mechanism. The senses thus acquired are all associated via an image - schematic link. The cognitive analysis of the VN ＋ as ＋ X construction, as is assumed,is very insightful for better understanding the English comolex -transitive constructions.