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A Cognitive Study Of Modern Chinese Hedges

Posted on:2013-04-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H NiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374955201Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Linguistic fuzziness generation is closely related to human cognitive processes, the role played by linguistic fuzziness generation and identification process of human cognitive psychology is also crucial. Hedges as a field of fuzzy linguistics, both in its structure or function is unique, this particularity of discourse organization, interpersonal communication, dialogue, dialogue relations between the two sides subtle changes, as well as the interaction of the dialogue of both aspects of specific perfomiance. Hedges is different from the vague language is modified non-fuzzy language to become a word or phrase vague language. The main task of cognitive linguistics to study language production, acquisition and use of language, to understand some of the common law and these laws and thinking, memory, language structure model from the perspective of human cognition. Cognitive linguistics, language activities seen as a cognitive activity, as a starting point to study the nature of language attribute of human cognition. Cognitive Linguistics for the study of Hedges in order to reveal the cognitive processes in the use and understanding of the particularity of Hedges more obvious will be the performance of the role of theory in cognitive linguistics. Hedges cognitive research, previous Hedges on the basis of the combination of cognitive linguistics, from the nature of the Hedges, semantic theory, to explore the Hedges in the concept, context when used in the human brain and the effects. Hedges fuzzy linguistic phenomenon, interpretation and analysis from a cognitive point of view, master the concepts and the use of cognitive processes and patterns of research applied to other linguistic phenomena can be in the past pragmatics, semantics point of view the interpretation of research and cognitive theory combining to make it more systematic, theoretical, and thus make us a more comprehensive and specific understanding of the language and research.
Keywords/Search Tags:cognitive linguistics, Hedges, cognitive processcs, cognitive rules
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