Cognitive Study Of Scientific Language

The scientific language, as the main way to express the thinking and the theory in the science, plays an important role in the science cognition. The development of the science itself is always accompanied by the development of the scientific language. The scientific language is one of the focuses in the science philosophy research.Based on the different functions of the language, it is divided into two parts at the beginning of the paper, i.e., natural language and scientific language. As it is well known, science is a very serious logical acknowledged system with components of scientific terms, symbols, formulas and charts; these make the scientific language different from the natural language. Generally speaking, the words of the natural language are polysemants; the grammar of the natural language is loose; and the capacity of expression by the natural language is limited. On the contrary, the scientific language character is exact, simple, general and abstract.At the beginning of the second chapter, the author reviews and comments the research of the language philosophy. Since Frege and Russell set up the system of logical analysis, many philosophers researched the scientific language with the tools of logic. In the firstfive decades of the 20th century, Wittgenstein and the representatives of the Logical Positivism improved the logic analysis of the scientific language. Over reviewing the philosophy research about the logical analysis of the scientific language, the author finds that the philosophers only focused on the logical analysis of the language, but they didn't give any comprehensive explanation on the producing and the development of the scientific language.Taking the advantages of the historical school and the cognition theory, the author researches the development and the usage of the scientific language with the dynamic and cognitive patterns. In this paper, the author introduces the main cognitive patterns (metaphor, model and analogy) and the relationships between scientific language and the three cognitive patterns. The cognitive patterns of metaphor, model and analogy are of great value to the development of the scientific language. The scientists can get, extend and deepen their cognition on the objective reality, and the scientists can understand the micro and macro space more vividly with the cognition patterns of metaphor, model and analogy. The limitation of the metaphor, model and analogy cognitive patterns is also pointed out in the paper, so the author gives the suggestion that scientists should use these cognitive patterns carefully. The scientific language is the result of the cognition of the science. With the development of the science, the scientific language happened to be developed. The development of the science is dynamic; so is the development of the scientific language.In a word, we can research the scientific language with the dynamic and cognitive patterns to get more understanding about thedevelopment of the scientific language, the process of the scientific research and the development of the science.Liu Xiuhua (Philosophy of Science and Technology) Supervised by Professor Li Quanmin...