跨语言人体隐喻“眼(eye)”多义衍生路向推演

认知语言学是以体验哲学和认知科学为背景的一门新兴交叉学科,涉及哲学、心理学、神经科学等一系列近邻科学分支。诸多学者立足高远、孜孜不倦地基于体验哲学和文化模型探求语言变化的深层机理,尤其关注词义衍生和拓展的认知机制。本文以此为契机,以北大中文系语料库(2)和《牛津高阶汉英双解词典》中汉英语言中“眼(eye)”类词族为突破口,对比分析该类词族相关词条的范畴化语义,管窥相关概念的语义扩展方式,解剖其多义衍生的内在机制,诠释人类对客观世界的认知路径,以验证隐喻思维在汉英词语语义拓展以及整个词汇系统建构中发挥的核心价值。

Cognitive linguistics is an emerging interdisciplinary subject grounded in embodied philosophy and cognitive science,involving plenty of adjacent disciplines such as philosophy,psychology,cognitive science,and others.Many scholars take hold in cognition and base upon embodied philosophy and cultural models to scrutinize the profound mechanism of language variation,especially concentrating on the cognitive mechanism of word meaning generation and extension.Granted this,this paper examines the semantic extension of“eye”word clusters,dissects the inherent cognitive mechanism of polysemy derivation,and illustrates the paths of human beings to cognize the objective world and verify the crucial role played by metaphors in extending semantic categories and the overall construction of vocabulary system in Chinese and English via collection,classification,comparison and analysis of the semantic category of“eye”word families in both languages from CCL and Oxford Advanced Learners'English-Chinese Dictionary.