Cognitive Study Of The Errors In The Use Of Nouns In Chinese Students' Chinese-English Translation

Cognitive linguistics is an approach to the study of language, which is based on our experience of the world and the way we perceive and conceptualize it. Prototype categories and basic level categories are the basis of cognitive linguistics, mainly focusing on the process of the classification of the physical world empirically and psychologically, which leads to the formation of cognitive categorization and categories. This classification is around the prototypes which refer to the largest bundles of shared attributes among the members in the category. There is the symbiosis relationship between prototype categories and basic levels with the features of primacy and centrality.The thesis analyzes the formation of the abstract prototype categories through the case study of the Chinese term "问题" , demonstrating its prototypical members and peripheral members. Since there is the symbiosis between prototype categories and basic levels, the thesis examines the basic level of the Chinese term "问题" and make a contrast between the Chinese basic levels and English ones. When the Chinese term "问题" is translated into English we must see the sentence context in which the Chinese term "问题" appears, and then choose a proper English word. It is hard to find one English word which is always identical to the Chinese term "问题". Actually there are a number of English words that can be translated into the Chinese term "问题" These English words belong to the basic level in English categories, while their Chinese equivalents are subordinate members in Chinese categories. So the misplacement of the category levels occurs which causes the errors in the use of...