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Chinese Words With A Metaphor For Research On Animal Morpheme

Posted on:2011-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360332955759Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Metaphor is a universal phenomenon, people all the time use a lot of metaphor. British rhetorician Richards once said, in our daily conversation almost every three sentences a metaphor that may arise. According to Pollio and others estimate that people in a free conversation, use four metaphor figures of speech average minute.The traditional metaphor theory, metaphor as a linguistic phenomenon, it's a phenomenon for the modification of the rhetorical discourse. However, the metaphor is not just a linguistic phenomenon, it is more important is a human cognitive phenomena. It is the humanity will be one of its experience in the field used to describe or understand another kind of experience in the field of cognitive activity. Metaphor on the one hand reflects the human cognition of the world, to be the other hand, the formation of metaphors in their language forms to influence people's way of thinking. As all people known that,in our daily life animals and human being have closely relationship. Thousands of years human existence and development are closely linked with animals. It was discovered that some essential characteristics of the image of animals and the various phenomena of human society there has been some similarities, cause of the similarity between the two to think, to express their understanding of a phenomenon or experience.Among the different ethnic groups due to historical, cultural, religious and other factors, in the form of animal metaphors vocabulary while there are some similarities, but there are quite a number of animals metaphor is quite different and even diametrically opposed, which may be to the negative migration of foreigners learning Chinese. The paper will be the relationship between animals and humans; Cultural significance of Chinese words with animal morpheme; metaphor of Chinese words with animal morpheme; the structure and semantic feature of Chinese words with animal morpheme; construction of the semantic system of Chinese words with animal morpheme.In order to multi-angle prime for the metaphor of Chinese word with animal studies, and giving Chinese teaching to help.
Keywords/Search Tags:Metaphor, Chinese words containing animal morpheme, Cultural significance, Semantic system
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