《学术论文写作》课程：研究报告.doc

《学术论文写作》课程：研究报告 201-2012学年度第1学期 级英本（）班 学号 姓名 成绩 研究课题：the comparative study of belly, abdomen and stomach in Chinese and in English I. Introduction There are myriads kinds of languages in the world, but they are all contain the words and phrases that corresponding to human body, that is body parts word, which also called human word and organ word. Why this phenomenon exist? From the view of cognitive linguistics, people firstly know and familiar with their body, then set out to know and understand the external world from themselves. According to anthropocentrism, Everything is from people on their own, then apply to the outside world, to things in space, time, nature and so on. (Shen Jiaxuan, 1994,17-23), human beings all interpret the world in this way. This shows that, regardless of which kind of language, body parts word are an important part of the vocabulary system, it is very necessary to study it. In fact, there has been a lot of scholars at home and abroad interested in body parts word, and had further research of it, such as Lakoff, Johnson, Feng Lingyu, Li Shuxin, Fang Feixue, Shi Xiyao, who had been published articles or works related to body parts word. This paper attempts to study three specific body parts words--belly, abdomen and stomach. Aim at study their phrases expression, usage and meaning both in Chinese and in English, including the words, phrases, collocation, how they make phrases and the sentences structure. I will collect the material from the dictionaries, the former researches and network corpus, then analyze the materials, inductive the similarities and differences, at last, I try to find out the background and reasons that make the differences and similarities . I.1 Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism is the guiding idea of modern western philosophy culture, it refers to person-centered, which indicate that the human beings is dominant and in ruling status, natural objects are being controlled and ruled. The c