认知隐喻视域下的汉字分化发生机制研究

Research on the Occurrence Mechanism of Chinese Character Differentiation under the Perspective of Cognitive Metaphor

汉字分化是指在原有字形的基础上造新字以分担原有字形部分职能的现象,基于对汉字分化现象的细致观察以及既有研究的洞见,我们发现认知语言学也可以从本质上阐释汉字分化的内在发生机制。本文讨论分化字发生时词义引申和字形类化中隐喻思维的体现,最后得出结论:认知思维在汉字分化中起着重要作用。

Chinese character differentiation refers to the phenomenon of creating new characters based on the original glyphs in order to share some of the functions of the original glyphs. Based on the careful observation of the phenomenon of Chinese character differentiation and the insights from the existing studies, we find that cognitive linguistics can also essentially elucidate the intrinsic mechanism of the occurrence of Chinese character differentiation. In this paper, we discuss the manifestation of metaphorical thinking in the derivation of lexical meanings and the analogy of word forms in the occurrence of differentiated characters, and finally conclude that cognitive thinking plays an important role in the differentiation of Chinese characters.