Study On Cognitive Models Of Verb "Sheng" In Modern Chinese Language

The verb "sheng" in modern Chinese language is a spatial displacement verb, has constructed more than ten kinds of different cognitive models of event domains with noun or nominal phrases. Because the cognitive perspective and the focus of attention are different, these conceptual structures by the means of metaphor mapping have built a series of different syntax structures. Based on the appearance and concealed situation of the cognitive components of position and reference direction well known to all people and agent which is a sort of force done by others and so on, this article, analyzing the syntactic structures and its characteristics of "sheng", which has been projected by the different cognitive models of verb "sheng", as a result, has proven powerfully from one hand Chinese grammar has the feature of "iconicity".At the same time, the cognitive model of event domain of "sheng" is a kind of spatial image scheme, and can construct a spatial metaphor. Specifically its source domain is spatial domain of "Up-Down" or "High-Low", which has usually been projected onto different abstract domains expressed by human language so as to construct a lot of different syntax structures of metaphors. These target domains include the domain of SOCIAL POSITION and RANK, the domain of PRICE or VALUE, the domain of TEMPERATURE, the domain of FORCE, the domain of ABILITY, the domain of QULITY, the domain of RESULT or ACHIEVEMENT, the domain of VOICE, the domain of EMOTION, the domain of THOUGHT, the domain of IMAGE, the domain of CULTURE, the domain of EPIDEMIC or DISASTER, the domain of LIFE, and the domain of DEVELOPEMENT of things, and so on. In sum, this has demonstrated strongly from the other hand that human language has the quality of "iconicity".