英汉动物名词动用习得中的认知阐释

The Cognitive Interpretation in the Study of Denominalization of Animal Nouns into Verbs in English and Chinese

英汉语言中的动物名词动用现象在数量、语义等方面各有差异,却体现了人类认知共性,即认知隐喻和转喻在名词动用过程中相互交织、共同作用,构成此语言现象背后的认知理据。从认知角度解析动物名词动用现象,能帮助语言习得者深刻理解语言表象的深层原因,从认知角度提高词汇习得效果。

Denominalizations of animal nouns into verbs in English and Chinese have differences in the aspects of quantities,meanings,etc.However,they present common human cognition.That is,cognitive metaphor and metonymy interwove and interact with each other,constructing the cognitive motivation of the surface language.Analyses of denominalization of animal nouns into verbs from the perspective of cognition can help language learners understand profoundly the deep causes of surface language,and promote the effect of vocabulary acquisition from the cognitive perspective.