汉语“海”系列词语中的“海”文化认知

The Cultural Cognition of "Sea" in Chinese Words Related to the Sea

语言是一个民族的行为方式和思维方式,渗透着一个民族的文化,语言中的词汇也蕴含着丰富的文化内涵。在与海的互动过程中,中国人形成了对"海"的基本认知,并在此基础上形成了对海的心理文化认知和人文象征认知。这些认知也反映在了汉语词语中。通过对汉语中大量"海"系列词语的分析,我们整理出了汉民族对"海"的一些文化认知内容,主要表现在这样几个方面:对于"海"这个客观存在的认识;人与海的互动;在互动基础上形成的对海的心理认知;在心理认知基础上形成的关于海的人文象征认知等。

As the way of national behavior and and the words are therefore loaded with cultural thinking, language is always influenced by the culture, connotations. While interacting with the sea, Chinese people have formed their own basic understanding of it, based on which the relevant cognition of culture and cultural symbol are produced. The cultural cognition mainly covers the understanding of sea as an ob- jective entity, people＇s interaction with the sea, the psychological cognition from the interaction and the cultural symbolization cognition based on psychological cognition. When comparing the cultural cognition of ＂sea＂ in Chinese words and English words, it could be concluded that they resemble in terms of the nat- ural quality of material sea and differs in some aspects due to social, historical and environmental factors.