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1、J.Linguistics28(1992),165-183.PrintedinGreatBritainREVIEWARTICLECognitivelinguisticsandwordmeaning:Taylor1onlinguisticcategorizationD.A.CRUSEDepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofManchester(Received7May1991;revised5August1991)JohnR.Taylor,Linguisticcategorizati
2、on:prototypesinlinguistictheory.Oxford:ClarendonPress,1989,Pp.ix+270.1.INTRODUCTIONTheapproachtothestudyoflanguageknownas'cognitivelinguistics'isnowwellestablishedandcoversallthecoreareasoflinguistics.Itisnoteasy,tocharacterizethismovementconcisely;however,th
3、efollowingquotationfromaleafletintroducingMoutondeGruyter'snewbookseries,CognitiveLinguisticsResearch,highlightsanumberofmajorthemes:Anumberofbasicthemeshaverecentlyemergedwhicharefundamentaltocognitivelinguistics...First,thestudyofhumanlanguagecannotbedivorc
4、edfromthestudyofhumanconceptualization...Second,alinguisticexpressionderivesitsmeaningbyinvokingapotentiallyopen-endedbodyofconceptualcontentandimposingaparticularconstrualonthatcontent,forexamplebymeansofmetaphorandmetonymy...Third,con-ceptualizationisground
5、edinbodilyexperience(especiallyspatial),whichinfundamentalrespectsiscommontoallhumankindandwhichconstrainsthemetaphoricstructuringofourmentalworldandaffordsabasisforinterpersonalandinterculturalcommunication...Fourth,allfacetsoflanguageinvolvecategorization,u
6、suallycharacterizedintermsofnetworksofstructureslinkedtoprototypes...Fifth,aunifiedaccountissoughtforthephenomenasubsumedbyphonology,morphology,lexicon,syntax,pragmatics,anddiscourse,whichdoesnotcompartmentalizethemintoautonomousmodulesbutratherviewsthemasgra
7、dingintooneanotherbothsynchronicallyanddiachronically.Itisperhapsdisputablewhetheranythingquitesodefinitiveasatheoryhas[1]Iwouldliketoacknowledgethecontributionofananonymousrefereetotherevisionofthisarticle.165JOURNALOFLINGUISTICSyetemerged,butthereisatleasta
8、sufficientconvergenceofsimilarapproachestoconstituteadistinctiveandreasonablycoherentfieldofintellectualendeavourwithinlinguistics.ThepurposeofTaylor'sbookistooffersomethinglikeacurrentst
