原型范畴理论视域下的流行语

A New Perspective of Prototype Theory on Catchwords

流行语的存在和流行是一种语言现象,也是一种社会现象。流行语在语音、词汇和语法等方面有其自身的特点,语言变异是其创新性的体现。原型范畴理论是认知语言学中的重要理论,本文拟通过原型范畴理论分析部分流行语的语义特点和结构,以期从新的角度解读流行语这种语言现象。

The existence and being popular of catchwords is not only a kind of language phenomenon but also a kind of social phenomenon.Catchwords have their own features in the aspects of phonetics,vocabulary and grammar.This kind of language variation reflects the originality and innovation of language.Prototype theory is one of the important theories in cognitive linguistics.In order to interpret catchwords from a new perspective,this paper tries to analyze the semantic features and structures of some catchwords from the prototype theory.