连通主义是研究以人工神经网络(建立在模拟大脑神经元及其连接力度基础上)解释人的认知能力的新兴理论。连通主义理论有众多模型,研究范围也极其广泛。本文简要介绍了连通主义产生的背景、理论框架、特点和几个重要的理论模型。文章还初步探讨了连通主义和符号研究的互补性问题,认为21世纪语言的认知研究应向符号分析和连通主义研究相结合的方向发展。 Connectivityism is an emerging theory that explores human cognitive abilities based on artificial neural networks (based on simulating brain neurons and their connections). There are many models of the theory of connectivism and the scope of the study is extremely broad. This article briefly introduces the background, theoretical framework, features and several important theoretical models of connectivism. The article also tentatively explores the complementarity between connexism and symbolic research. It holds that the cognitive study of language in the 21st century should develop in the direction of the combination of symbolic analysis and connectivism.