汉语成语认知研究述评

A Review of the Cognitive Study of Chinese Idioms

认知语言学在中国发展和传播短短30余年,由于其对汉语研究的高度适合性,已经广泛应用于各个领域。汉语成语研究也由本体研究转向认知语言学研究。用认知语言学的方法研究汉语成语,成功地突破了结构主义研究的困境。成语的认知研究,不仅仅就成语的本体和文化谈成语,而是把成语视为概念的产物。从认知思维着手研究成语,是顺应研究的趋势的,是现实的需要,也是历史发展的结果。但是,认知语言学毕竟是一种较新的理论框架,洋为中用势必会有一定的局限性,所以不断地对比、验证、改进是一个长期的过程。

Due to its high suitability for Chinese language studies,Cognitive Linguistics has been fast developed and widely adopted in various study fields after it was introduced in China more than 30 years ago.Accordingly,the research approach to Chinese idioms has switched to cognitive way from the ontological.Studying Chinese idioms in cognitive way solves the problems in traditional structuralist research.Chinese idioms are the products of concepts in cognitive research instead of being only related to culture.The cognitive approach to Chinese idioms complies with the trend and meets the need of study.However,cognitive linguistics is bound to have its own limitations as a new and foreign theory framework.Therefore,cognitive approach to Chinese idioms study will involve comparison,test and verifying in a long run and will improve gradually in this process.