Chinese Folk Wisecrack (CFW) is a special language form which is invented by the Chinese people out of their life experience and has been widely used for a long history. In China, the previous studies on it are main...Chinese Folk Wisecrack (CFW) is a special language form which is invented by the Chinese people out of their life experience and has been widely used for a long history. In China, the previous studies on it are mainly stay on its surface, such as relation between CFW and culture, rhetoric and grammar; scholars scarcely note the meaning construction of CFW. This paper aims to study the process of meaning construction of CFW through the Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) of the cognitive linguistics.展开更多
文摘Chinese Folk Wisecrack (CFW) is a special language form which is invented by the Chinese people out of their life experience and has been widely used for a long history. In China, the previous studies on it are mainly stay on its surface, such as relation between CFW and culture, rhetoric and grammar; scholars scarcely note the meaning construction of CFW. This paper aims to study the process of meaning construction of CFW through the Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) of the cognitive linguistics.