Based on the corpus,the metaphorical structure of Love Are Plants in Chinese includes six stages:(1)sowing/rooting/ger-minating,(2)growing,(3)flowering,(4)flower fading,(5)fruiting,and(6)withering.The stages of plant ...Based on the corpus,the metaphorical structure of Love Are Plants in Chinese includes six stages:(1)sowing/rooting/ger-minating,(2)growing,(3)flowering,(4)flower fading,(5)fruiting,and(6)withering.The stages of plant growth and the developmentstages of love basically show a one-to-one correspondence,and its cognitive grounding is the psychological similarity between thesource domain PLANTS and the target domain LOVE,which is not an objective existence,but a subjective judgment of the addresser.展开更多
文摘Based on the corpus,the metaphorical structure of Love Are Plants in Chinese includes six stages:(1)sowing/rooting/ger-minating,(2)growing,(3)flowering,(4)flower fading,(5)fruiting,and(6)withering.The stages of plant growth and the developmentstages of love basically show a one-to-one correspondence,and its cognitive grounding is the psychological similarity between thesource domain PLANTS and the target domain LOVE,which is not an objective existence,but a subjective judgment of the addresser.
