“融合”为创新的常用之法——作为两股西方学术思潮结合之果的体认语言学

Blending as a Common Approach for Innovation——Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics Grown Out of Two Western Academic Trends

学科之间的“融合”乃为创新的一种常用之法,所谓“跨学科、超学科”研究就是这一方法的具体实践,这种方法可以用认知语言学家提出的“概念整合论”从理论上做出合理解释。20世纪90年代同时从西方传来两股学术思潮:后现代哲学与认知语言学,但两者未能形成直接对话和融合。虽然有学者倡言此事,但收效甚微。而“体认语言学”则是在融合这两股思潮的基础上建构起来的理论体系,它从哲学角度论述了语言研究中的象豹观、唯物论、体验人本性(含非理性)、隐喻体认观等,探索了语言学理论的本土化和前沿性问题,为语言学研究和教学开辟了一个新方向、提出了一种新思路。

The blending between the disciplines is a common approach for innovation,thus the so-called“interdisciplinary”or“superdisciplinary”studies are its specific practice,which can be reasonably explained in theory by“Conceptual Blending Theory”of the cognitive linguist.The author has given heed to the introduction of two academic trends-postmodernist philosophy and cognitive linguistics-into China in the 1990s,but they have few dialogues or blending.Some scholars have mentioned this gap,but have only produced very little effect.This paper attempts to integrate these two trends,out of which Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics has grown.This new school,from the philosophical perspective,expounds the View of Elephant-Leopard,materialism,embodied humanism(non-rationalism included),and the embodied-cognitive view of metaphor,etc.,and explores nativization and frontier for linguistic theory,thus opening a new direction for the linguistic circle both at home and aboard,and proposing a new idea for language teaching.