从认知观看英语习语

人们长期以来认为英语习语的意义不能从构成习语的组成单词的意义中推断出 ,其习惯意义与组成该习语的词汇的字面意义之间的关系是任意的。习语被假定具有不能用逻辑理由加以解释的语言特性 ,它们常常让人误解并造成歧义。基于这一原因 ,在教学时习语常被忽略或者根本对它避而不谈。本文以Lakoff认知理论中的三种认知机制为分析模式来研究习语 ,向传统观念作一挑战。作者从认知观出发试图找出习语的习惯意义与构成习语的组成单词之间的联系

English Idioms: Discussion from Cognitive Perspective

One enduring belief about the arbitrariness of English idioms is that they are non componential because their idiomatic meanings are not deducible from the meanings of their individual parts. This traditional perspective frustrates the logical account of idioms as a feature of language, which causes some misleading and ambiguity. So idioms are often relegated to the sidelines or simply steered clear of deeper exploration. Borrowing ideas from Lakoff' s cognitive theory, the author tries to challenge the traditional view by using Lakoff' s three cognitive mechanisms to deal with the problem of idiomaticity. It is expected to find out the association between the meanings of idioms and their components.