摘要
Tautology a type of interesting language phenomenon existing in many languages.It has its particular characteristics of syntax and semantics.In recent years,it has aroused great attention both home and abroad.This paper first reviews the syntactic and semantic approaches to the study of it and then analyzes tautological utterances from the aspect of cognition in the theory of prototype.Based on the prototypical construction"X is X",it comes to the conclusion that the interpretation of tautology can be attributed to the cognitive process in which an entity is categorized by people.
Tautology a type of interesting language phenomenon existing in many languages. It, has its particular characteristics of syntax and semantics. In recent years, it has aroused great attention both home and abroad. This paper first reviews the syntactic and semantic approaches to the study of it and then analyzes tautological utterances from the aspect of cognition in the theory of prototype. Based on the prototypical construction ＂X is X＂, it comes to the conclusion that the interpretation of tautology can be attributed to the cognitive process in which an entity is categorized by people.
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《科技信息》
2011年第4期143-144,共2页
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tautology prototype theory cognitive explanation
