Humor, as a form of interesting interaction, often appears in our daily life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cognitive mechanism of humor. It is found that humor is dependent on people’s relevance and in...Humor, as a form of interesting interaction, often appears in our daily life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cognitive mechanism of humor. It is found that humor is dependent on people’s relevance and inference in their minds, and also on the conceptual blending with its emergent structure. The authors hold that these two theories are supplementary to each other;the combination has even more powerful interpretation about the workings of humor generation.展开更多
A brand is the identity of a specific product,service,or business.The brand name is quite often used interchangeably with "brand",although it is more correctly used to specifically denote written or spoken l...A brand is the identity of a specific product,service,or business.The brand name is quite often used interchangeably with "brand",although it is more correctly used to specifically denote written or spoken linguistic elements of any product.Developed from the mental space theory,conceptual blending theory is an important part of cognitive linguistic researches.Based on this theory and integration networks,this paper explains the meaning construction of the translated brand names and the way people understand them.This paper takes two successful translation cases and two unsuccessful ones to make the contrast analysis.It proves that conceptual blending theory can provide detailed description and profound explanation of the perceiving process of brand name translation.Meanwhile it points out the direction of brand name translation from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.展开更多
Emotion has always played an important role in human life.Owing to its fuzzy and abstract features,people often express it metaphorically.Conceptual Blending theory can clearly show the meaning construction and thinki...Emotion has always played an important role in human life.Owing to its fuzzy and abstract features,people often express it metaphorically.Conceptual Blending theory can clearly show the meaning construction and thinking process between the author of original text and the translator of target text.Emotion metaphors are abundant in Tang Xiangxing,especially emotion metaphor for“anger”.So,the study will reveal the dynamic construction mechanism and translation strategy of emotion metaphor for“anger”with the help of conceptual blending theory,in order to provide some reference for metaphor translation in literary work and also be beneficial to introduce the excellent Chinese culture.展开更多
This paper aims to find out the effect of using the conceptual blending theory to understand the meaning construction of newly coined Chinese words and phrases such as internet catchwords.Through illustration of some ...This paper aims to find out the effect of using the conceptual blending theory to understand the meaning construction of newly coined Chinese words and phrases such as internet catchwords.Through illustration of some examples,it is found that the conceptual blending theory is applicable in explaining Chinese linguistic phenomena and it offers us a new perspective to understand new linguistic phenomena in Chinese.展开更多
Death euphemism is a pervasive language phenomenon,which is typical in the euphemism. This artical attempts to adopt Fauconnier and Turner's conceptual blending theory to illustrate the meaning construction and th...Death euphemism is a pervasive language phenomenon,which is typical in the euphemism. This artical attempts to adopt Fauconnier and Turner's conceptual blending theory to illustrate the meaning construction and the cognitive interpretation of English death euphemism,and tries to explore its cognitive mechanism in order to provide a new theoretical perspective for its development.展开更多
Traditional metaphor theory regards metaphor as a rhetorical device,but conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguis⁃tics believes that metaphor is also a universal way of thinking and a cognitive method which peop...Traditional metaphor theory regards metaphor as a rhetorical device,but conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguis⁃tics believes that metaphor is also a universal way of thinking and a cognitive method which people can use to know the unknown.This paper mainly summarizes conceptual metaphor theory,discusses its contribution towards cognitive linguistics and its impor⁃tant developments—the blending theory.This study will benefit the further metaphor researching and language teaching.展开更多
文摘Humor, as a form of interesting interaction, often appears in our daily life. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cognitive mechanism of humor. It is found that humor is dependent on people’s relevance and inference in their minds, and also on the conceptual blending with its emergent structure. The authors hold that these two theories are supplementary to each other;the combination has even more powerful interpretation about the workings of humor generation.
文摘A brand is the identity of a specific product,service,or business.The brand name is quite often used interchangeably with "brand",although it is more correctly used to specifically denote written or spoken linguistic elements of any product.Developed from the mental space theory,conceptual blending theory is an important part of cognitive linguistic researches.Based on this theory and integration networks,this paper explains the meaning construction of the translated brand names and the way people understand them.This paper takes two successful translation cases and two unsuccessful ones to make the contrast analysis.It proves that conceptual blending theory can provide detailed description and profound explanation of the perceiving process of brand name translation.Meanwhile it points out the direction of brand name translation from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.
文摘Emotion has always played an important role in human life.Owing to its fuzzy and abstract features,people often express it metaphorically.Conceptual Blending theory can clearly show the meaning construction and thinking process between the author of original text and the translator of target text.Emotion metaphors are abundant in Tang Xiangxing,especially emotion metaphor for“anger”.So,the study will reveal the dynamic construction mechanism and translation strategy of emotion metaphor for“anger”with the help of conceptual blending theory,in order to provide some reference for metaphor translation in literary work and also be beneficial to introduce the excellent Chinese culture.
文摘This paper aims to find out the effect of using the conceptual blending theory to understand the meaning construction of newly coined Chinese words and phrases such as internet catchwords.Through illustration of some examples,it is found that the conceptual blending theory is applicable in explaining Chinese linguistic phenomena and it offers us a new perspective to understand new linguistic phenomena in Chinese.
文摘Death euphemism is a pervasive language phenomenon,which is typical in the euphemism. This artical attempts to adopt Fauconnier and Turner's conceptual blending theory to illustrate the meaning construction and the cognitive interpretation of English death euphemism,and tries to explore its cognitive mechanism in order to provide a new theoretical perspective for its development.
文摘Traditional metaphor theory regards metaphor as a rhetorical device,but conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguis⁃tics believes that metaphor is also a universal way of thinking and a cognitive method which people can use to know the unknown.This paper mainly summarizes conceptual metaphor theory,discusses its contribution towards cognitive linguistics and its impor⁃tant developments—the blending theory.This study will benefit the further metaphor researching and language teaching.