英语现在时非现在时间指称用法的认知研究述评  

Commentary on Cognitive Studies of the Non-temporal Use of English Present Tense

作　　者：江桂英[1] 李恒[1] 

机构地区：[1]厦门大学外文学院

出　　处：《外语与外语教学》2011年第4期10-13,共4页Foreign Languages and Their Teaching

基　　金：教育部人文社科规划项目“语言经济学与中国英语教育”(项目编号:06JA790095)阶段性成果

摘　　要：传统英语语法对动词现在时的非现在时间指称用法缺乏足够的理据性解释，容易造成对时态用法的误解和语法教学的困难。本文阐述了Langacker的认知语法、Fauconnier的心理空间理论和源于Lakoff概念隐喻的时间-空间距离隐喻观对其形成机制做出的认知解释，并逐一做了述评，认为上述三种理论对该问题的论述角度虽然不同，但都具有较强的解释力。这三种理论均认为语法是对认知机制的描写，符合认知语言学的“体验性”特征。尽管它们存在各自的不足和缺陷，但却能起到互补的作用。Traditional English grammar is insufficient in explaining the motivation of the non-temporal referential use of English present tense, which results in misinterpretation of the use of the tense and difficulty in grammar teaching. This paper provides a review on the formation mechanism of the non-temporal use of the present tense as expounded by Langacker＇s cognitive grammar,Fauconnier＇s mental space theory and the spatial-temporal projection approach derived from Lakoff＇s conceptual metaphor theory. The study finds that three schools approach the same issue from different perspectives, and yet all have a strong explanatory power. They all take grammar as a description of the cognitive mechanisms which are consistent with the ＂embodiment＂ feature of cognitive linguistics. Despite their respective weakness in the description, they are complementary to one another.

关 键 词：现在时 非时间指称用法 认知语法 时间-空间隐喻 心理空间 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]