Title: Analysis on the Metaphor in Popular Phrases of Contemporary Chinese
Abstract: One of the most common manners for human to think is using language metaphor,which is also one of the fundamental ways for cognition.Metaphor often creates new concepts.This is achieved by employing experience from one field to express experience of another field.This phenomenon is manifested by contemporary Chinese where many popular phrases are actually produced by metaphor word-formation.That is to say,metaphor is an effective mechanism for generating new words that carry new meanings.Essentially,metaphor has several semantic features such as contradiction,fuzziness and degree,which have a close relationship between the generalizations of semantic.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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