The English borrowings in Chinese are scrutinized from a multi-dimensional perspective,including their formation and activity in current existence,and then the predictions about their future trend are set forth hereby...
Mandarin在(pinyin:zài)is the most frequently used character in representing spatial and temporal relationship.Current studies mostly focus on its lexical meaning and syntactic structure while cognitive features of it...
Cognitive grammar does not differentiate nominalizations belonging to the syntax or in the lexicon.From the perspective of cognitive construal,nominalizations of verbs and adjectives involvethe alternate profiling of ...
Based on the theory of Forceville’s multi-modal metaphor,this paper adopts qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyze 60 social safety ads both in China and America,trying to demonstrate the similaritie...
In this paper,the hybrid model based on the conceptual blending theory and qualia structure is applied to the interpretation of the meaning construction of typical hypallage.Based on this study,it has been proved that...
This paper presents a corpus-based case study on the linguistic construal of armed conflicts on the parallel corpus Grande Sertao: Veredas and The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. Drawing on Halliday's (1998) and on...
A central claim of Cognitive Grammar is that basic grammatical categories,such as noun and verb,have conceptual characterizations valid for all members.The standard argument against this position is invalid.The propos...
Frame-Shifting Theory (FST) is a significant theory in cognitive linguistics and it has a great explanatory power in reanalyzing the meaning and provides a good framework to account for the dynamic process in the cour...
This research explores media users' cognition of "time" and "space" across different media platforms, and conducts a comparison among media genres including mass media and intemet media based on user's interacti...