从辐射范畴的视角探究中国大学英语学习者的中介语变异——以论元结构构式的习得为例-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Appling Radial Categories to Interlanguage Variation ---A Case Study on the Acquisition of Argument Structure Constructions Abstract Interlanguage Variation has always been an important research subject in second language acquisition (SLA). Some previous researchers have delved into the effects of various factors on interlanguage variation through utilizing different theoretical frameworks and methods, trying to find the regularity hiding behind the variable phenomena in interlanguage. Previous studies have shown that interlanguage variation is a result of the concerted action of a complex series of factors, all of which may interact with each other. Although great achievements have been made in this field, there are still some controversies. Therefore, it is necessary to do further research on interlanguage variation. Formed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, second language acquisition has got a history of more than forty years so far. Over the years, following in the footsteps of researchers in other branches of linguistics, investigators have continuously applied theoretical results in different areas to the field of second language acquisition. In view of the latest developments both at home and overseas, there are generally two paths for second language acquisition research: the cognitive perspective and the social-cultural perspective. Therefore, the present thesis attempts to apply cognitive linguistics to the research of interlanguage variation. As an emerging and important component of cognitive linguistics, construction grammar is a construction-based cognitive approach which claims that construction is a form-meaning or form-function pairing. In the process of accounting for second language acquisition, construction grammar underlines that language is a system composed of constructions. Therefore, second language acquisition is the acquisition of constructions to a great extent. Although many scholars both at home and abroad have already introduced const