概念整合理论视域下英语新词认知机制探析

A Study of English Neologisms Cognitive Mechanism from the Perspective of Conceptual Blending Theory

近年来,越来越多的新词出现在人们视野中,不仅反映了社会的发展变化,更折射出人们心智交流的需求。新词的出现本质上更是受到人类认知的影响。从认知视角研究语言,能解释人类的社会属性和思想属性。以英语新词为研究对象,基于概念整合理论视角,通过实例分析,探析英语新词的意义构建过程及其认知机制,进一步了解人们是如何通过语言的动态认知来进行思维和认知世界的。

Nowadays, more and more neologisms come into being, which reflects the change of society andindicates the demanding of human beings mental communication. The occurrence of neologisms is not only theproducts of social development but also the effects under human cognition. From the perspective of cognition,aexplanation of human social attribute and ideological attribute is given. Taking English neologisms as research subject,analyze the meaning construction of them through case study under the view of conceptual blending theory, whichmakes a further understanding of how human think and cognize the world dynamically by using language.