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Cognitive Understanding of Biblical Parables

Author: JiXiaoYan
Tutor: BoYuKun
School: Jilin University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Bible Jesus Fable Prototype Theory Integration Theory
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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\This understanding in the subsequent 1,500 years has been dominated by the understanding of the people of the Bible, \Into the twentieth century, people began to be studied from all angles fable. Including rhetoric, literature, cognitive science perspective. Representative figure of Adolf Jülicher, George Lakoff, George Fauconnier, Mark Johnson, Mark Turner. This paper attempts to predecessors cognitive theory, a new understanding to the Bible, \The fable is generally considered to be a carrier of literature. Containing allegory or obvious lessons significance of story. It typically uses a metaphor of the way to express the rich educational themes and profound truth. The fable of the Bible is not only guiding our lives should be how to regulate their own how to do things, it is the deeper meaning of our humanity is how to generate; should now how to live in accordance with God's will; future will be how to get in heaven should reward and punishment. Unlike ordinary fable, all the fables in the Bible \Allegorical interpretation of the Bible, we must not leave this ideological isolated from the functional to talk about. The fables of the Bible, meaning camp tend to give element defines each fables, history the camp often expect reshape fable about the environment, literary strongly concerned about the literary value of the \literature and language. These methods has its own limitations, do not proceed from the people itself subjective and objective together. From cognitive interpretation of metaphor, allegory, opened the curtain on subjective self and the objective world. Interactionism Unicom theory began, people gradually turn to the cognitive areas. Lakoff experience mental thorough people into the field of cognitive, subjective consciousness and the objective world fully combine together. The same time period \The source of this theory is derived from on these great theory of divergent thinking. The theoretical framework of this paper is the prototype theory and the concept of integration theory jointly build up, but it is the tacit agreement of the two theories, rather than the simple accumulation. 1950s, Wittgenstein, through the study of the \He believes that all members of similarity linked to form a category, that is, areas. Is not the same as to the status of members within the same category. The family resemblance is actually the internal mechanism of a semantic category, precisely because of this mechanism makes categorization, in essence, is regarded as a cognitive activity. Therefore, Wittgenstein and his \Fauconnier (1985) mental space instead of possible worlds, and pointed out that mental space is also a cognitive structure. It is a medium of human categorization, conceptualization and thinking. On the basis of the mental space theory, Fauconnier further proposed conceptual integration. In general, the concept of integration involves at least four spaces: two input spaces, a generic space and a fusion space. The fusion space will utilize and develop the corresponding part of the connected two-input space, will be integrated into a more complex event-related events. Four space through a series of mapping operations are connected to each other, forming a conceptual integration network. Fauconnier and Turner explicitly pointed out: the language is the result of the concept of integration. Integrate theory proposed to pioneering significance of linguistics and cognitive science. Author by similarity prototype meaning and the family in the prototype theory, the concept of integration of the integration of theory in the generic space and fusion space. Their theory more reasonable and easy acceptance factor is extracted and put them into the understanding of the biblical parable, to obtain a more simple, direct and rational understanding. This understanding not only allows the wider community to understand the true meaning of the Bible fable and profound rule behind, as well as the principle of the use of language and cognitive mechanisms of the world can stand another angle to dissect. The meaning of the prototype in the Prototype Theory is the starting point for our understanding of the Bible \First of all, we cut into the fable of the Bible should grasp the main line of its book, which is the prototype of significance. Of examples in the text of the parable of the Good Samaritan, the parable of the prodigal son, the parable of the virgins, the parable of the talents, the parable of the mustard seed has a corresponding original prototype significance. Good Samaritan compared to not rely on to keep the law to enter into the kingdom of heaven; prodigal likened do not know the people of God; virgins waiting for the people of God come again likened; caliber than the ability to give people as God blessing; mustard species than for God's kingdom. When we see a variety of carrying the analogy of the kingdom of heaven information, we first have to know the meaning of heaven is how to load our secular language. Prototype significance is extremely important. The family resemblance is further different fable divergent thinking possible. Caliber analogy, for example, it is our God-given ability to live, we sow the ability of the kingdom of heaven gospel, also can be understood as our ability to interpret the will of God. Based on not deviate from the central idea, given us in charge of creating the possibility of family resemblance. Then we have to enter the mental space range and create the possibility to verify our cognition and rationality. In the generic space, we can know that God has given us the ability to transform the world and our ability to know God, or our ability to spread the gospel is not generic and the same category. Because of all the problems involved in this level are abstract concepts, based on the experience to judge. These members may belong to the same category is then mapped to the integration of space to integrate new concepts and understanding. In addition, we should have a verification mechanism, at least, we have come to the conclusion, not contrary to the Bible discourse central idea of ??the meaning of. For example, God-given talent is not so that we have the ability to create the Tower of Babel, or itself above the top of the skill of his ability. When reading about cognitive theory books and the Bible, the author found these great creation of the prototype theory and integration theory is most useful for the interpretation of the Bible \Not only can have a better grasp of the Bible \Therefore, the authors try to sort out and integrate these two theories, expecting to help language learners. In the course of the study, the authors deeply feel the limitations of time and space this article can only be involved in the field of very simple discussion. The authors hope that the future can continue to learn from this practice, get more harvest.

Cognitive Understanding of Biblical Parables

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