The purpose of the study was to investigate the characteristics of predicative metaphors and its comprehension way.Past literatures revealed that conventionality and aptness of metaphors influenced metaphor comprehens...
The word formation prefix“ke(可)”has the meanings of“can(可以)”,“make(使令)”,“worth(值得)”,and“suitable(适合)”;this paper not only studies the words of“ke(可)X”,but analyzes the generation mechanism and co...
This article discusses how to read surrounding words and phrases for determining word meaning through using contextual analysis.When students have the problems in dealing with unknown words,they can use contextual ana...
Cognitive semantics expounds English idioms from a cognitive perspective,which is different from traditional semantics.It puts forward the rationale of idioms rather than arbitrary language forms,focusing on the impor...
In spatial cognition,there are great differences between Chinese“shang/xia”and English“up/down”,being obvious subjectivity in both of them.While expressing the same spatial concept,Chinese“shang/xia”does not mak...
Address forms in Chinese colleges and universities are marked with the stylized use of administrative titles. This preferable use of administrative titles is not only the indication of interpersonal relationships but ...
The more common the world, the more meanings it has. We can say that polysemy is the role and monosemy is the exception. Polysemy is a common phenomenon for students in language learning, but is also the difficulty of...
Based on Cognitive Theory, the paper tries to analyze the role of teachers' cognition in foreign language teaching According to the characteristic of teachers' cognitive research, the paper prominently analyzes what...
Through the analysis of the theories of cognition and meta-cognition, the essay explains the relationship between cognition, meta-cognition and foreign language learning motivation. By combining the author's teaching...
This study reviews the arguments over the arbitrariness and the motivation of linguistic signs. As to whether linguistic signs are arbitrary or motivated, opinions vary from scholar to scholar, which can be concluded ...