英语低调陈述原型效应  

The Prototype Effect of English Understatement

作　　者：鞠红[1] 

机构地区：[1]安徽大学

出　　处：《中国外语》2013年第4期45-50,共6页Foreign Languages in China

基　　金：教育部人文社科项目"英汉低调陈述修辞语用认知对比研究"(08JA740001);国家社科基金项目(13BYY016)的阶段性研究成果。

摘　　要：在追溯以往学者运用西方各种认知语言学理论对英语低调陈述修辞研究的基础上,利用原型范畴理论对低调陈述现象的存在进行解释,认为低调陈述既是认识世界的工具,又是认识世界或范畴化的结果。从内涵及定义结构来看,不能以一套必要充分条件定义低调陈述这个概念范畴;从外延及指称结构来看,低调陈述与其他相邻范畴如反语、委婉语的界限并非完全明晰。因此,低调陈述显示出原型效应。以范畴化的认知过程为切入点,揭示原型理论在英语低调陈述修辞的认知理解过程中所发挥的重要作用。Based on tracing the previous studies of the English understatement and cognitive studies on prototype theory, this paper argues that understatement constitutes a prototypical category with its members exhibiting a family resemblance and degrees of typicality as well. With the extension of the understatement category, prototypical categories are blurred at the edges and begin to intersect another rhetoric category. From the perspective of the cognitive activities of categorization, the paper attempts to demonstrate the importance of prototype theory in the cognitive understanding of understatement.

关 键 词：原型理论 低调陈述范畴化 认知过程 

分 类 号：H0-06[语言文字—语言学]