Title: A Cognitive Construal of the Polysemous Verb Open
Abstract: Polysemy reflects people’s intention of making our language economical. The lexical items,instead of gathering randomly,develop with a certain meaning extension mechanism and men’s cognitive perception of the world and human body. A semantic analysis of the verb open demonstrates how the meaning extends from its literal meaning to domains of space,time and emotion. During this process,metaphor and metonymy plays a crucial role. Prototype theory can be applied to illustrate polysemy in its syntactic structure.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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