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A Cognitive Semantic Study of Idioms from The Book of Songs

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Chinese Lexical Semantics (CLSW 2015)

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This paper analyzes the cognitive mechanisms of meaning extension and the cognitive process of dynamic meaning construction of the idioms from The Book of Songs by adopting cognitive semantic theories. The findings are: conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy are the main conceptual motivations and cognitive mechanisms of the idioms from The Book of Songs; the dynamic meaning construction of the idioms is a process of blending between idiom mental space and discourse mental space, which eventually gives rise to the emergent structure.

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  1. School of Foreign Languages, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

    Dong Zhang & Jiehong Bai

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  2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Helena Hong Gao

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Zhang, D., Bai, J. (2015). A Cognitive Semantic Study of Idioms from The Book of Songs . In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_13

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