Abstract: Idioms are set phrases.Cognitive linguistics believes that idioms are the products of our conceptual system,whose meanings can be seen as motivated,but not arbitrary,and they are closely related to human′s cognitions.By means of interpreting conceptual metaphor,conceptual metonymy and conceptual metaphor-metonymy,the paper explores cognitive mechanism in the learning and understanding of the emotional idioms.The study will provide us with a new perspective to explore idiom′s semantic meanings.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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