Chinese Virtual Moving Sentence And Cognitive Analysis

Leonard Talmy, in her book Toward a Cognitive Semantics(2000), defined the cognitive pattern of veridically unequal discrepant representations of the same object as "the pattern of general fictivity", and based on this, introduced the cognitive concept of "fictive motion", comparing to "factive motion". This paper is constructed on the basis of the concept of "fictive motion" Talmy proposed, and focus on the study of fictive motion in Chinese. In this paper, we first have a summary look and comment at the referent researches done in and abroad, then put forward the principal features distinguishing categories of Chinese language, and based on the definitions we set, we choose a good variety of Chinese FM, that ranges from static spatial existence to abstract mental activity and expressions referring to time.Further, according to the definitions of FM sentence, this paper move on to form a basic categories of the FM sentences, and combining the features in syntax and semantic, giving a concrete analysis. Absorbing the referent theories of Cognitive Semantics, we move on to explore the deep cognitive basis undergoing there in the FM sentences. We think, FM sentences in Chinese reflect that languages do not mirror the object word while conceptualizer plays a quite key role in forming and using the language. Since we find out how important the body experiences are, we finally come to our conclusion: FM sentences are formed by the projections from the concrete inputs of real motions.At the end, for the plausibility of our argument, we introduce some helpful psychological experiments, and also many interesting examples in social and culture fields. We then come to the our conclusion that fictive does not just exist in language, but also in other domains of our real life. So language has the same structure as other cognitive representations, it is not a dependent system from others.