原型理论在英语多义词学习中的应用研究

论文摘要

本文利用原型范畴理论的观点对一词多义现象的存在进行了研究,分析了一词多义现象产生的原因和机制。原型理论认为一个词的多个义项是从原型义项演变而来的,不仅表现出不同程度的家族相似性,同时又表现出不同程度的原型义项身份。所以在教学中重视基本范畴词和基本词汇,可以给学生打下坚实的学习基础;重视多义词的讲解,可以使学生认识词的不同意义之间内在的本质的联系,了解词的发展的规律性;重视隐喻和转喻的认识,使学生对词的发展的动因和机制有一定的认识。以原型范畴理论为指导的英语词汇教学可以一改以往机械枯燥的记忆法词汇学习,从而提高学生的学习兴趣,改善课堂气氛,提高教学质量,进而提高英语词汇学习效率。

论文目录

• 中文摘要
• ABSTRACT
• CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
• 1.1 BACKGROUND INFORMATION
• 1.2 ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAPER
• CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
• 2.1 ARISTOTLE’S CLASSICAL APPROACH TO CATEGORIES
• 2.2 PROTOTYPE APPROACH TO CATEGORIZATION
• 2.2.1 Prototypical categorization
• 2.2.2 Levels of Categorization
• CHAPTER THREE PROTOTYPE THEORY
• 3.1 PROTOTYPES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PROTOTYPICALITY
• 3.1.1 Defining Prototypes
• 3.1.2 Characteristics of Prototypicality
• 3.2 SIGNIFICANT NOTIONS OF PROTOTYPE THEORY
• 3.2.1 Salience, Centrality and Radial Structures
• 3.2.2 Family Resemblance and Fussy Boundaries
• 3.3 THEORETIC STATUS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROTOTYPE THEORY
• CHAPTER FOUR ENGLISH POLYSEMY IN PROTOTYPE THEORY
• 4.1 POLYSEMY
• 4.1.1 Definition of Polysemy
• 4.1.2 Semantic Cores of Polysemic Words
• 4.2 EXPLANATION OF ENGLISH POLYSEMY IN VIEW OF PROTOTYPE THEORY
• 4.3 EXTENSION PATTERN OF THE POLYSEMIC WORDS MEANING
• 4.4 PROTOTYPE: THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE IN CATEGORY
• 4.5 PROTOTYPICAL MEANING OF A POLYSEMY
• 4.6 COGNITIVE DEVICES OF LEXICAL POLYSEMIC EXTENSION
• 4.6.1 Metaphor
• 4.6.1.1 Statement of Metaphor
• 4.6.1.2 Features of Metaphor
• 4.6.1.3 Categories of Metaphor
• 4.6.2 Metonymy
• 4.6.2.1 Statement of Metonymy
• 4.6.2.2 Features of Metonymy
• 4.7 PROTOTYPICAL CHANG
• 4.7.1 Smoothness of Lexical Semantic Change
• 4.7.2 Prototype Shift
• 4.7.3 Prototype Split
• CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION
• 5.1 SUMMARY OF WHOLE PAPER
• 5.2 ILLUMINATION
• 5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• 在学期间发表的学术论文和参加科研情况