英语味觉词词义演变的认知机制及其对英语词汇教学的启示

The Cognitive Mechanisms in Meaning Extensions of English Taste Words and the Implications for English Vocabulary Teaching

英语味觉词的一词多义现象是由于其词义的不断演变和拓展而形成的,其词义演变和拓展的认知机制主要包括概念隐喻、概念转喻、心理扫描及侧显识解。英语味觉词词义演变认知机制的研究对英语词汇教学具有重要的启示。在英语词汇教学中,教师可积极引导学生分析词汇意义演变的认知机制,使学生深入了解词汇意义形成的认知理据和各词义之间的内在联系,从而使学生能根据英语词汇的本义来理解和掌握其拓展意义,有效提高英语词汇教学的效率。

Due to the gradual meaning extensions,English taste words have become polysemous words.The cognitive mechanisms in the meaning extensions of English taste words mainly include conceptual metonymy,conceptual metaphor,mental scanning and profiling.These findings have important implications for English vocabulary teaching.The teacher can actively guide students to explore the cognitive mechanisms in the meaning extensions of English words,which are helpful for the students to understand the cognitive motivation of the meaning formation and the internal relationship between the meanings of words,so that the students can acquire the extended meanings based on the original meaning and the efficiency of vocabulary teaching and learning can be greatly increased.