从澳大利亚英语词汇看其国民性格  

Australian National Personality Reflected in Its English Lexicon

作　　者：窦伟莉[1] 

机构地区：[1]西华大学,四川成都610039

出　　处：《四川警察学院学报》2016年第5期90-96,共7页Journal of Sichuan Police College

基　　金：四川省教育厅人文社科一般项目"澳大利亚主流媒体涉华新闻语篇的认知分析"(w15111224)

摘　　要：澳大利亚英语是英语的一种重要的地域性变体,它在词汇层面的创新能够体现澳大利亚国民性格。本文结合认知语言学中的范畴层次、隐喻和转喻理论,从词义延伸和构词两方面对囚犯语言和动植物词汇进行研究。分析澳大利亚英语中的词义延伸和构词与澳大利亚国民性格之间的关系可以更好地帮助人们了解澳大利亚国民性格,也益于跨文化交流。Australian English is an important regional variety of English,and its creation at the lexical level can reflect Australian national personality.With categorization,cognitive metaphor and cognitive metonymy as theoretical basis,the paper explores Australian English words related to convicts as well as animals and plants from semantic extension and word formation.An analysis of how Australian national personality relates to semantic extension and word formation in Australian English helps to enhance people ＇s understanding of Australian national personality,and it also promotes crosscultural communication.

关 键 词：澳大利亚英语词汇 国民性格 词义延伸 构词 

分 类 号：H310.1[语言文字—英语]