Language teaching is a highly complex phenomenon so that it is closely related with philosophy of education, theoretical linguistics and cognitive science. The language system is constructed by adopting a series of co...Language teaching is a highly complex phenomenon so that it is closely related with philosophy of education, theoretical linguistics and cognitive science. The language system is constructed by adopting a series of cognitive strategies within human beings＇ experiences. On the basis of outlook of experience, reading and comprehension can be regarded as a process of prediction, perception, reasoning and retrieving, in which the reader is an experiencing individual. Thus, experience is a clue in the reading process.展开更多
Embodied philosophy see metaphorical and metonymy thinking and language as grounded in the interactions between bodily experience,mind,and world.An important application of embodied philosophy is to explain the cognit...Embodied philosophy see metaphorical and metonymy thinking and language as grounded in the interactions between bodily experience,mind,and world.An important application of embodied philosophy is to explain the cognitive mechanism behind the generation of polysemy in language.As a crucial part of cognitive linguistics,conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory illustrates the progress of human’s cognitive capacities essentially,i.e.from concrete and simple categories to abstract and complex categories.This paper advocates a method of seeking the relation between metonymy and metaphor in generating polysemic words to prove that embodied philosophy lays the philosophical theoretical foundation for language research,including the mechanism and specific methods of adopting this method.By examining the relation between metaphor and cognitive mind supported by embodied philosophy,the traditional view that language is autonomously generated can be eradicated.On the basis of previous researches,this paper adopts the mechanism of a continuum of metaphor and metonymy to illustrate polysemy through a case study of the word“Star”and analyzes the reflection of embodied philosophy in the generation of polysemy.The findings will bring certain advantages to the cognitive study of polysemy,to the research on interaction between metaphor and metonymy,and to the reflection of philosophy in language.展开更多
文摘Language teaching is a highly complex phenomenon so that it is closely related with philosophy of education, theoretical linguistics and cognitive science. The language system is constructed by adopting a series of cognitive strategies within human beings＇ experiences. On the basis of outlook of experience, reading and comprehension can be regarded as a process of prediction, perception, reasoning and retrieving, in which the reader is an experiencing individual. Thus, experience is a clue in the reading process.
文摘Embodied philosophy see metaphorical and metonymy thinking and language as grounded in the interactions between bodily experience,mind,and world.An important application of embodied philosophy is to explain the cognitive mechanism behind the generation of polysemy in language.As a crucial part of cognitive linguistics,conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory illustrates the progress of human’s cognitive capacities essentially,i.e.from concrete and simple categories to abstract and complex categories.This paper advocates a method of seeking the relation between metonymy and metaphor in generating polysemic words to prove that embodied philosophy lays the philosophical theoretical foundation for language research,including the mechanism and specific methods of adopting this method.By examining the relation between metaphor and cognitive mind supported by embodied philosophy,the traditional view that language is autonomously generated can be eradicated.On the basis of previous researches,this paper adopts the mechanism of a continuum of metaphor and metonymy to illustrate polysemy through a case study of the word“Star”and analyzes the reflection of embodied philosophy in the generation of polysemy.The findings will bring certain advantages to the cognitive study of polysemy,to the research on interaction between metaphor and metonymy,and to the reflection of philosophy in language.
