汉语空间方位参照的认知结构

Location reference may be defined as follows: "The narrator chooses a point of view, determining the spatial or temporal location area on the relationship between the localizer and relevant direction and position reference points." The article, through its examination of the spatial location reference in Modern Chinese, explores the basic theory of location reference from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. Spatial location reference reflects the cognitive process and cognitive method of a language group in terms of the spatial location relationship in cognitive space. Location reference is a cognitive structure, which includes such structural elements as localizer, narrator, point of view, direction reference point, and position reference point. The article discusses each of these structural elements of the location reference and outline its structural patterns from different aspects.