认知语言学在揭示本族人习焉不察而外国人感到困惑的语言现象并作出科学解释方面,表现出突出的优势,但目前很少将其运用在对外汉语教学中,本文主要以“图形—背景”理论为例,说明在教授留学生汉语存现句,东、西、南、北方向的表述以及名词性成分的排列顺序时的优势,倡导恰当运用认知语言学等新理论。 Cognitive linguistics has shown its outstanding advantages in revealing and making scientific explanations of the phenomenon that foreigners are not observant and foreigners are puzzled. At present, it is seldom used in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language, Graphics - background "theory as an example to illustrate the advantages of teaching foreign students in Chinese existential sentences, expressions of east, west, south and north and the order of noun components, and to promote proper application of new theories such as cognitive linguistics.