Abstract:

With the development of discourse analysis, a variety of research approaches have been proposed, each with its own characteristics and advantages. However, in terms of analytical theories and methods related to language, most of them are limited to Systemic Functional Linguistics, neglecting the attention to and reference to discourses in specialized fields, as well as the exploration of the understanding and use of terms in ordinary discourses, along with the ideology behind the terms. Based on Terminology, Cognitive Linguistics, and Systemic Functional Linguistics, we put forward the theory of Terminological Cognitive Discourse Analysis (TCDA), identifying terms in light of specialized and ordinary discourses, analyzing semantic and grammatical parts of terms, and then combining contexts, semantic and grammatical contents of terms, together with the assistance of other methods of discourse analysis, to reveal the ideology and attitude underlying terms. Subsequently, the TCDA theory is applied to illustrating Chinese ecological environmental discourses, which demonstrates the applicability and developmental potential of such a theory.

Key words: Terminological Cognitive Discourse Analysis (TCDA), discourse, term, cognitive linguistics