家族相似理论提出后,成为认知语言学“范畴论”中一个至关重要的概念,对于解释系统范畴内部的原型,多义范畴的结构和扩展方式以及语言本身的范畴化有着关键的作用。但笔者认为,这个理论在方法论上存在明显的缺陷。家族相似论所表示的词语的范畴并非词语本身的范畴,而是在词语的搭配意义中寻找共性,这种方法论是不可取的。 After the theory of family similarity is proposed, it becomes a crucial concept in Cognitive Linguistics “Category Theory ”, which is crucial for explaining the prototypes within the category of systems, the structure and extension of polysemous categories, and the categorization of language itself effect. However, I believe there is a clear flaw in the methodology of this theory. The category of words represented by family similarism is not the category of the words themselves but the commonality in the collocation of words, which is not desirable.