英语名词数范畴的原型范畴研究

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1、分类号学校代码密级——学号至Q】QQ至Q昼Q璺鱼墨APrototypicalStudyoftheNumberCategoryofEnglishNouns英语名词数范畴的原型范畴研究研究生姓名指导教师姓名、职称学科专业研究方向湖南师范大学学位评定委员会办公室二0一三年五月APrototypicalStudyoftheNumberCategoryofEnglishNounsAThesisSubmittedtoForeignStudiesCollegeOfHunanNormalUniversityInPartial

2、FulfillmentoftheRequirementsFortheDegreeofMasterofArtsintheSubjectofForeignLinguisticsandAppliedLinguisticsByLiuPeiwenUndertheSupervisionofProfessorQinYuxiangChangsha，HunanMay，2013AbstractTheEnglishnounisoneofthemostimportantlearningcontentsforEnglishlangua

3、gelearners．ThenumberofEnglishnounshasalwaysbeenanunavoidabletopicinthestudyofEnglishgrammar．InCognitiveLinguistics，theprototypetheoryiswidelyusedtoexplainthephenomenonofpolysemy．ThenumbercategoryofEnglishnounsisasemanticcategory．Andtherefore，theprototypethe

4、oryisappliedhereinthisthesistothediscussionofthenumberofEnglishnouns．Accordingtothecategorytheory,thenumberofEnglishnounsistheproductofpeople：Scategorization．Intherealworld，thingsarecategorizedintosingleentitiesandpluralentitiesbyhumanbeings．Thebasisofthege

5、nerationofthenumberisthecategorizationoftheworld．Theconceptofnumberisgeneratedinhumanbeings’brainthroughconceptualizationandisrepresentedaslinguisticsymbolsinthelanguagesystem，andthereforethenumbercategoryisgeneratedinlanguage．ThenumbercategoryofEnglishnoun

6、sisdividedintotwosubcategories，thesingularnumberandthepluralnumber．Therearetwoaspects，thenumberformandthenumbermeaning，ineachnumber．Andaccordingly,thesingularnumberisfurtherdividedintothesingularformandthesingularmeaning．Andthepluralformandthepluralmeaninga

7、rethetwoaspectsofthepluralnumber．Intheflameofcognitivelinguistics，themeaningiscrucialpartindiscussionofconceptualization，categorizationandprototypetheory．Consideringmeaning，thesingularisusedtorepresentsingleentitiesandpluralisusedtorepresentpluralentities．T

8、hesingularnumberandpluralnumbereachhavetheirprototypeandnon-prototype．ThelinguisticrepresentationofprototypeofnumberofEnglishnounsisthatsingularmeaningisexpressedbysingularformandpluralmeaningbypluralf