汉语配对量词与英语配对单位词的范畴化及其对比分析.pdfVIP

metaphor. Cognitive linguistics considers that metaphor gnosia is a thinking ability of human being. It is the advanced stage of cognitive development. And it is the necessary cognitive ability of realizing the world, especially realizing the abstract things. The cognition of things of things of human being is from objective to subjective in our daily communication. And we use concrete and familiar concepts to express and depict those concepts are hard to describe. This method, which utilizes the connection between things to project one concept to the other, is metaphor. Cognitive linguistics Lakoff and Johnson conclude that metaphor is not only language but also a thinking, behavior and activity. It is a projection from one concept to the other. For this reason, we can understand that there is coincidence of selection of nominal ingredient between Chinese and English in pairing meaning. Besides, it is no surprise that there exists different cognitive course and result of the same thing by different people for different culture, society, way of working, way of observation and thinking perspective etc.. Special language background will form a special language habit. Through comparing of different languages, we have deeper understanding of the different culture which imbeds in words. This will give advantage to language teaching and language research that extend to extra-linguistic level which is the exploration of material and spiritual life, including history of society, society life, way of thinking, thinking perspective and so on besides teaching research of language itself. Keywords: language compare, pairing, Chinese measure word, English measure word, categorization, typology iv 目录 中文摘要………