PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND THE FUNCTION OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS
PERCEPTION OF SPACE AND THE FUNCTION OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS
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空间感知和某些英语介词的功能
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-1770.1969.tb00464.x
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发表时间：
1969
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
George Takahaski
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作者：
George Takahaski
将英语作为第二语言学习的学生面临的最困难的问题之一是对英语介词的功能和用法的理解。这是因为说英语的人，包括教师，无法对它们的出现或使用提供任何合乎逻辑的解释，或清晰的概念框架。虽然处所介词代表的是物体在空间中的空间或时间关系，但关于这些关系的研究似乎还没有取得丰硕的成果，研究处所介词最符合逻辑的方法是研究人类如何感知空间及其性质。为了研究介词“at”、“to”、“on”和“in”之间的关系，分析和应用了几何学中的“点”、“线”、“面”和“实体”等概念。此外，还提出了一种哲学和数理逻辑，并对人类感知的性质进行了研究，以推导出这些介词背后的心理意义。通过考察和分析这些介词的各种出现，作者认为这些介词之间存在着逻辑上的联系，它们的功能和意义是可以从人类在太空中的心理生理经验中理解的。
One of the most difficult problems a student of English as a second language faces is the understanding of the functions and the usages of English prepositions. This is because English speakers, including teachers, are unable to offer any logical explanation, or clear conceptual framework for their occurrence or usage. While it is known that locative prepositions represent spatial or temporal relationships of objects in space, no fruitful study seems to have been made regarding these relationships, The most logical approach to the study of locative prepositions is to study how man perceives space and its properties. For the study of the relationships between the prepositions ‘at’, to, ‘on’ and ‘in’, the geometer's concepts of ‘point’, ‘line’, ‘surface’ and ‘solids’ are analyzed and applied. Further, a philosophical and mathematical logic, and a study of the nature of human perception, are presented in order to derive the psychological meanings which underlie these prepositions. The author concludes, after examination and analysis of various of their occurrences, that these prepositions are logically connected and their functions and meanings are comprehensible from the psycho-physiological experiences of man in space.