Research on"Danziweixun(单字为训)"from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics——Taking the Character"Zhi(止)"in the Annotated Corpus of the Eastern Han Dynasty's Gao You as an Example
As the most common annotation method in annotated language materials,single character annotation essentially reflects how ancient people recognized the world through the establishment of mental categories.From the perspective of cognitive linguistics,this study examines"danziweixun(单字为训)"from three aspects:semantic framework,prototype category and edge category,and semantic field focus distribution.Taking the character"zhi(止)"in the annotated corpus of the Eastern Han Dynasty's Gao You as an example,when"zhi(止)"is used as an explanatory word,it highlights its prototype feature of"stop"meaning,or rather its core meaning;When"zhi(止)"is used as the interpreted word,it displays some conceptual slots and fillers in the semantic framework of"zhi(止)".Under the joint action of imagery schemas such as partial holistic schema,connected schema,and container schema,"zhi(止)"forms a fuzzy cognitive domain consisting of prototypes and edges.In annotated corpora with single character training,the prototype category of high-frequency explanatory words is the intersection of semantic categories of different interpreted words.Whether explanatory words can completely replace the interpreted words depends on whether their cognitive models are completely or partially identical.