语义韵异同的认知阐释——以“白”和“white”为例

The Cognitive Interpretation of Similarities and Differences of Semantic Prosody——Taking the Chinese Word "Bai" and the English Word "White" as Examples

语义韵是人类语言能力的一部分。不同的语言在概念同一客体的语言符号中往往蕴涵着不同的意义,在语义韵上的表现也往往不尽相同。以现代汉语"白"和现代英语"white"为例,通过语料库数据,比较二者语义韵异同的表象,并运用认知语言学的相关理论深入探究造成其异同的根源,发现认知主体的主体性是造成语义韵异同的深层原因。

The semantic prosody previous studies, the paper examines ＂white＂ from diachronic perspective similarities and differences. shows similarities and differences in different languages. Based upon the the semantic evolutions of the Chinese word ＂bai＂ and the English word and finds out that subjectivity is the root cause of the semantic prosody