一、范畴化理论“范畴”一词在认知语言学中是个用途很广且含义模糊的术语。一种事物及其类似成员(如椅子)可以构成一个范畴,一类事物(如家具)及其所包含事物可以构成一个范畴。范畴化是人类对世界万物进行分类的一种高级认知活动,在此基础上人类才具有了形成概念的能力,才有了语言 I. Categorization Theory The term “category” is a widely used and vague term in cognitive linguistics. A thing and its like members (such as a chair) can form a category, a category (such as furniture) and what it contains can constitute a category. Categorization is a kind of high-level cognitive activity that human beings classify all things in the world. Based on this, human beings have the ability to form concepts and have language