1、 理论语言学研究苏晓军挖井认知语言学：研究什么？The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Edited by Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens Oxford University Press ,1364 pages, Oct 2007 Edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Professor of Linguistics, University of Leuven, Belgium , and Hubert Cuyckens, Professor of Linguistics, Universit
2、y of Leuven, Belgium The Future of Cognitive Linguistics (Handbook PP.15-17)1）强调语言的社会方面（social aspects of language），研究社会认知和社会变异现象（social cognition and sociovariational phenomena）；2）强调实证研究方法（empirical methods within Cognitive Linguistics）：实验研究，语料库研究；3）追求认知语言学的理论统一性（theoretical unification），使认知语言学成为理论
3、上统一的知识体系。Unique contribution as a Chinese Going International 於宁 赵晓寰Metaphor in CultureMetaphor in Culture: Universality and VariationZoltn KvecsesCambridge University Press 2005To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? Can the cogni
4、tive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively a
5、s they do. This book proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. Firstly, the major dimensions of metaphor variation are identified; that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Secondly, the book describes which components, or aspects, of conceptua
6、l metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Thirdly, it isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Lastly, it deals with the issue of the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation Cultural
7、 model Quinn, Naomi. 1987. Convergent evidence for a cultural model of American marriage. In Dorothy Holland and Naomi Quinn, eds., Cultural models in language and thought17392. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. For her cultural model of marriage, Quinn (1987) interviewed husbands and wives in
8、eleven marriages (fifteen hours of tape recording) and applied the techniques of key words, metaphor grouping, and reasoning analysis. The most frequent key words were commitment, love, and fulfillment. She identified the following eight templates, in her terminology proposition-schemas, around which the metaphors used to explicate these schemas are grouped:
