Construction of the Paradigmatic Semantic Network Based on Cognition

Based on the achievements in Cognitive linguistics such as category theory and image schema, we attempted to explore the way to construct the paradigmatic semantic network. The basic-level categories develop longitudinally to super-ordinate ones and laterally to complicated or abstract ones. Reflected in lexicon that is the criss-cross paradigmatic semantic network. So what we should do is to extract the basic-level category words as the base points of the network, reconstruct the image schemas to conclude the super-glossemes, then longitudinally and laterally extend the network following the rules of category developing. In the last part, the feasibility is verified through the research related to Kan and its word groups.