Chinese People's Cognitive Re-processing Of English Words

Language is originally created by man's cognitive processing of the world concept. If a nation's creating of its own language can be regarded as its FIRST cognitive processing of concept, its understanding of a foreign language could be seen as the SECOND cognitive processing, ie.the cognitive RE-processing, which is just introduced in this thesis to analyze the cognitive ways of Chinese people, whose first language are mandarin, through five chapters as the following:The 1^st chapter introduces the object, objective and methodologies of this thesis.The 2^nd chapter first introduces how the idea of cognitive re-processing is put forward according to cognitive psychology. Then by introducing Langacker's Imagery Schema Theory and some related cognitive concepts, the cognitive re-processing ways, illustrated as parameters, are defined for dividing the English words. Finally, according to Selfridge's Feature Matching Pattern, we design a hierarchy model of Chinese people's cognitive re-processing of English words with those parameters.The 3^rd chapter gives out our definition and category of the cognitive objects in this thesis after analyzing former researchers' definitions and categories. And a frame is established according to Chinese people's cognitive ways. The processing degrees of different categories are counted in our frame in comparison to former researchers' categories and the different frequency of the using of parameters is analyzed.The 4^th chapter shows how the frame is used to classify our corpus of English words collected from the most authoritative dictionaries of loans words and the feature and intendancy of Chinese people's cognitive re-processing of English words are analyzed. Rules and changes are found in those aspects.The 5th chapter dedicates a conclusion to the former four chapters and brings forward several aspects that need further studies.