Title :
A Cognitive Study of the Metaphoric Structuring of SHIJIAN
Author_Institution :
Dept. of English, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Metaphor is the result of human mind conceptualizing the world. In many previous studies about metaphor, space and time are thought to be the two most fundamental concepts in cognition, by which other concepts are constructed. Nevertheless, discussion of the metaphoric structuring of time in natural language is rare, not to mention the time concept in Chinese. This paper aims to evaluate whether the concept of time in Chinese is metaphorically structured, thus in turn, trying to discover the means adopted by Chinese people to understand SHIJIAN.
Keywords :
cognition; linguistics; natural languages; SHIJIAN; cognition; cognitive linguistics; cognitive study; human mind conceptualizing; metaphoric structuring; natural language; Birds; Cognition; Containers; Educational institutions; Humans; Pragmatics; Presses; cognition; cognitive linguistics; metaphor; metaphoric structuring; time;
Conference_Titel :
Semantics Knowledge and Grid (SKG), 2011 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1323-1
DOI :
10.1109/SKG.2011.16
