摘要
体验哲学和认知语言学最重要的贡献之一,发现了语言具有体验性这一重要特征。近年来国外神经科学家获得了很多新发现,并提出了Cog假设、神经元连通论与扩散论、神经元模拟论等新观点,美国伯克莱大学的认知语言学家基于这些成果建立起模拟论语义学,开辟出一条用神经科学来解释语言和隐喻形成和运作机制的新路径,深入批判客观主义语义观,进一步论证了语言的体验性,使得全世界的认知语言学家深受鼓舞。这也使得我们深刻认识到,语言的体验性已不再是一个简单的假设,也不必局限于仅从语言中寻找证据,当今神经科学的新发现为其提供了有力的证据。
One of the most important contributions of Embodied Philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics is the detailed account of a new language property--embodiment, which is evidenced by the latest discovery of neural science abroad and the new proposition of Cog Hypothesis, Connectionism and Spreading Theory, and Neuron Simulation Theory. Based on these new findings, the Berkeley Cognitive Linguists in America have established simulation semantics, thus opening a new path for the explanation of formation and working mechanism of language and metaphor from the viewpoint of neural science, which has really inspired all the Cognitive Linguists around the world. The new development has also made us realize that language embodiment is not at all a simple hypothesis, and we needn＇ t be satisfied with the proofs from within the language examples, but the latest discovery of neural science has offered a powerful evidence.
出处
《外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2009年第3期1-6,28,共7页
Foreign Language Education
