Abstract:

Founded by Chinese scholar professor Wang Yin, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics is under vigorous development. Based on his critical reference from the three turns in the history of Western philosophy and his proposal of its fourth turn, this article attempts to clarify one of the scientific bases of Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics (focusing on the subjectivity and objectivity of language at the same time) and demonstrate its scientific and advanced natures, thus laying foundation for the establishment of Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy from the perspective of history of Western philosophy. The research finds that from ontology to epistemology, then to language theory, development of the whole history of western philosophy shows a shift from ignoring subjectivity to attaching importance to subjectivity, from ignoring language to attaching importance to language. The nature of language is the integral combination of subjective and objective factors. Precisely because of the attention on the duality of unified subjectivity and objectivity of language nature, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics successfully avoids the bias in language study: either attaching great importance to objectivity, or attaching great importance to subjectivity, and scientifically meets with the requirements of language itself; Because of the balanced focus on subjectivity and objectivity, it transcends the research paradigms of separate concern on objective or subjective nature of language, which generates its characteristic of advanced nature.

Key words: Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics, history of Western philosophy, rationality, frontier