摘要
By assuming that the meaning of natural languages is rooted in the human capacity for conceptualization,this paper examines the semantic structure of the English preposition in,and suggests an analysis within cognitive semantics where it is argued that the various sense of prepositions are extended from a central sense in quite systematic ways and the figurative senses from the spatial ones through conceptual metaphors.
By assuming that the meaning of natural languages is rooted in the human capacity for conceptualization, this paper examines the semantic structure of the English preposition in, and suggests an analysis within cognitive semantics where it is argued,that the various sense of prepositions are extended from a central sense in quite systematic ways and the figurative senses from the spatial ones through conceptual metaphors.
出处
《科技信息》
2010年第20期109-110,共2页
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关键词
英语前置语
英语学习
学习方法
阅读
preposition
cognitive and semantic
conceptual schemas
metaphorical extension
