This article takes the perspective of cognitive linguistics and applies the semantic cognitive mechanism of English idioms to analyze the motivation between the generation and meaning of idioms.It explores the teachin...
Embodied philosophy see metaphorical and metonymy thinking and language as grounded in the interactions between bodily experience,mind,and world.An important application of embodied philosophy is to explain the cognit...
Metaphor and metonymy are viewed as two different figures of speech in traditional rhetoric,while,in cognitive linguistics,both are both conceptual,spontaneous,and unconscious human activities based on thinking and ba...
Collaborative Project of Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press and Guangzhou Xinhua University in 2020-Construction of Four-step Approach of Encouraging,Sharing to Ideological,Political Education in An Integrated English Course(Project No.:2020GD0025);the Sub-project of University Level Project of Guangzhou Xinhua University in 2020-Construction of Four-step Approach of Encouraging and Sharing to Ideological and Political Education in Basic Courses of Business English(Project No.:2020BE008).
Different from those in Mandarin Chinese,some references in Cantonese adopt metonymy.From the perspective of cognition,this paper takes the conceptual metonymy as the theoretical framework to analyze the typical meton...
the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Guangdong Province During the 13th-Year Plan(GD16YWW03);the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education(16YJC740038);the National Social Science Fund of China(17CYY003).
This study conducted an eye-tracking experiment on processing different patterns of Chinese familiar metonymy in sentential contexts.It analyzes five eye-tracking measures concerning the processing of metonymy.The res...
The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2020JBWB003)。
This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson's use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or definitional.Based on textual an...
The present study is part of the Chinese MOE Key Research Project of Humanities and Social Science(Project No.16JJD740006)conducted by the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Personification is widely acknowledged for its central role in the understanding of a nation.However,empirical evidence of its pervasiveness in authentic language data is lacking.In a selfbuilt corpus of news report,t...
Metaphor and metonymy play an important role in the formation of the common saying“put the heart in the belly”.The human organs“heart”and“belly”function as container metaphors.The heart and the thought emotions ...