Interpretation of the Beauty of "Lolita" from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Abstract

Lolita, a famous black humor work of Nabokov, and readers normally find out that it is vague to grasp the meaning of this type of style. This paper illuminates a cognitive method to probe ideas in the work, brings you a new angle to find out meanings in Nabokov and his work. Getting ideas from the mechanism of cognitive linguistics, ideas in a fiction can be found to have a prototype or projection in its context. This paper tries to find "Lolita" from, both in form and content, has subverted the prototype category of “novelâ€, opened a new categorization process of “novelâ€, and established a new prototype.