《学术论文写作》课程：研究报告
2011-2012学年度第1学期
xx级英本（x）班学号xx 姓名xx 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 core idea of anthropocentrism is "human beings is being put as the prerequisite of the theoretical of scientific research. Human beings is related to the trade-offs proportion between the unique perspective and theoretical premise, which means that people become the datum mark of analyzing a certain phenomenon, human beings takes parts in the analysis ,and decide the prospect and the final purpose of the analysis. But in the field of linguistics, anthropocentrism is put forward just in recent years, with the guidance of anthropocentrism, the results and contributions of studying linguistic are mainly reflected in the prominent characteristics of language at the level of philosophical ontology .some of the cognitive linguistics researches also proved the basic idea of anthropocentrism, on one hand, language is thought to be the most important of human understanding activity, studies of languages can help to reveal the mysteries of human cognitive activities; On the other hand, the research of cognitive system can also help to study the structure of language system. Man is the subject to recognize and to understand the world, we are the starting point of the cognitive process, also are the final destination of the cognitive process. Researches of contemporary cognitive linguistics found that people know things from the behavior of theirselves, then apply to the outside things, and finally
