【正确答案】I personally think Cognitive linguistics will develop quickly in China. Cognitive linguistics (CL for short) is an approach to the analysis of natural language that focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing, and conveying information. It is a newly established approach to the study of language that emerged in the 1970s as a reaction against the dominant generative paradigm which pursues an autonomous view of language (Ruiz de Mendoza, 1997). It is based on human experiences of the.world and the way they perceive and conceptualize the world (Ungerer & Schmid 1996/2001).
According to Shu Dingfang (2009), studies of CL started in China in the late 1980s, and this has provided Chinese linguists a new approach to the study of Chinese language. Over the past twenty years, Chinese CL has gone through rapid expansions and made great advances in different areas. The charm of CL lies in the fact that it can be used to interpret and predict to language phenomena, and it takes into consideration of psychological factors of language users. Resemantization and recontextualization can be perfectly applied to Chinese language study.

【答案解析】[解析] 此题目的是考查考生对语言学各分支的了解。考生可任选一个自己感兴趣或了解较深的分支来进行阐述。