认知语言学的回归语境化及其对外语教学的启示

The Recontextualization of Cognitive Linguistics and its Implication for FLT

认知语言学把语法看作是概念形成过程,特别注重语义在语法描写和解释中的作用,把语境因素引入了语法理论的构建过程,恢复了被转换生成语言学所排斥的语境方面,构建出包含语境因素在内的语法理论体系。认知语言学的回归语境化对外语教学的启示包括以意义为中心讲解语法概念、重视词语涉及的认知域、认识语言知识是以用法为基础的、关注语法概念跟语境的关系。

In Cognitive Linguistics, grammar is regarded as conceptualization. Cognitive Linguistics stresses the role of meaning in grammatical description and interpretation, introduces contextual factors into the construction of its grammatical theory, and, by resuming context, which was rejected by Transformational-Generative Linguistics, builds up a system of grammatical theory which contains contextual factors. The implications of this recontextualization for foreign language teaching include putting meaning at the central position in interpreting grammatical concepts, attaching importance to the cognitive domains related to new words, recognizing the usage-based nature of linguistic knowledge, and stressing the relationship between grammatical concepts and context.