带“on”短语动词的认知语义分析-英语语言文学专业论文.docx

I I Abstract A phrasal verb is constituted by a verb and a particle, behaving as an integrated verb concept. In recent years, more and more researches are done on phrasal verbs, especially the semantic studies. However, the semantic studies on phrasal verbs with a certain particle based on the corpus analysis are not common. Therefore, this thesis intends to do some cognitive semantic studies on phrasal verbs with on with prototype theory, image schema and cognitive metaphor theory as tools, and the data of phrasal verbs with on as foundation to reveal the relation between the particle on and the verbs ahead, and also the influence on the phrasal verbs with on given by the particle on. After the general introduction of the cognitive semantics and phrasal verbs, reviewing the whole process of studies on phrasal verbs, the author introduces three cognitive theories which do offer an important foundation for the core analysis. With the image schema theory as guide, the primary spatial meaning of on is identified as “contact”. On the basis of this, further specifications of the particle on are offered. The spatial meaning of on can be further divided into three kinds: “adjacent to”, “to be a member”, “moving towards”. These three spatial meanings of on can be described with three different image schemas: Edge schema (TR is close or adjacent to the edge of LM), Part schema (TR is a part of LM) and Direction schema (TR is moving towards LM in direction). The spatial concept of on can be extended to six metaphorical domains, which are target, state, time, scope, basis and manner. On the basis of cognitive semantic analysis of the particle on, the author analyzes 195 phrasal verbs with on compiled from three different dictionaries, and finds that the meanings of phrasal verbs with on can be grouped into four main clusters, which are support cluster, contact cluster, conglutination cluster and advance cluster. Finally, II II the author proposes that meanings of on can bring