Title: Meaning of “qiu”in the Idiom “yi ri san qiu”
Abstract: The meaning of words should be related to their origin,as well as to their development. The wordqiuin shi jing·cai ge can be only explained as autumn / three months. But the word yi ri san qiuin Modern Chinese can be explained asyear,which is also consistent with the evolutionary laws of languages. The semantics developed through two metonymical change: one is event-time,and the other is part-whole time. For understanding idioms,the paper concludes with two principles of evolution and connotation-centeredness.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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