认知语言学和TGGrammar之比较研究.pdfVIP

1 Cognitive Linguistics with TG Grammar as Comparison Yongzhi ，Liu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures Chengdu University of Technology Chengdu, P. R. China 610059 lyzhi @ Abstract This paper, with TG Grammar as comparison, is a study of the philosophical foundations, psychological hypothesis, linguistic propositions, especially the main claims in cognitive semantics. The study shows that cognitive linguistics, a methodology of linguistics rather than a school, explores language nature jointly from the perspective of objecti vism and subjectivism, but it is neither of them, hence revolutionary in linguistic studies. Keywords: cognitive linguistics，TG Grammar ，cognitive semantics ，embodied philosophy With the inspiration from gestalt psychology (Max Wertheimer, 1880-1943), developmental psychology (Jean Piaget, 1896-1980), and post-analytical philosophy (Hilary Putnam, 1926-), cognitive linguistics, as the representative of second-generation cognitive science, took shape in 1970s, and expanded at a fascinating speed in 1980s and 1990s with its outstanding representatives like R. Lakoff and M. Johson who have made profound studies of metaphor and embodied philosophy, R. W. Langacker who has laid the foundation of cognitive grammar, C. Fillmore who has put forth his cognitive frames theory, J. Taylor who has summarized theories of categorization and made a thorough re