This article takes the perspective of cognitive linguistics and applies the semantic cognitive mechanism of English idioms to analyze the motivation between the generation and meaning of idioms.It explores the teachin...This article takes the perspective of cognitive linguistics and applies the semantic cognitive mechanism of English idioms to analyze the motivation between the generation and meaning of idioms.It explores the teaching of English idioms based on motivation analysis and proposes several suggestions and strategies for idiom teaching,hoping to benefit English idiom teaching.展开更多
English preposition is flexible word with various meaning and preposition"in"is a high-frequent word used widely in English expression. As we know, there are about 70% English sentences are metaphors, and pr...English preposition is flexible word with various meaning and preposition"in"is a high-frequent word used widely in English expression. As we know, there are about 70% English sentences are metaphors, and preposition is used frequently as the backbone of metaphorical expression. Therefore, the preposition cognitive interpretation is an effective way to understand the semantic extension of preposition. This article mainly analysis the prototypical meaning and the image schema of preposition "in"and discusses the mapping process from the spatial domain to the other cognitive domain. Through analysis the metaphor semantic extension process, we might get a better understanding of it.展开更多
Particle verbs can be said to possess some degree of semantic integral character in assembly of the verb plus particle.The recent cognitive study,particularly the metaphorical view,looksmuch deeper into the process of...Particle verbs can be said to possess some degree of semantic integral character in assembly of the verb plus particle.The recent cognitive study,particularly the metaphorical view,looksmuch deeper into the process of semantic formation of particle verbs,maintaining that it is the metaphorical extension in both the verb and the particle.The cognitive linguistic views on language developed in the last two decades set up the basis of the present study on particle verb.展开更多
The thesis targets at a preliminary comparison of anger metaphors between Chinese and English. Compared in terms of container metaphor and containment schema from the perspective of cognitive semantics, the anger meta...The thesis targets at a preliminary comparison of anger metaphors between Chinese and English. Compared in terms of container metaphor and containment schema from the perspective of cognitive semantics, the anger metaphorical expressions of the two languages are observed to be of differences as well as similarities.展开更多
The paper presents an extension multi-laye r p erceptron model that is capable of representing and reasoning propositional know ledge base. An extended version of propositional calculus is developed, and its some prop...The paper presents an extension multi-laye r p erceptron model that is capable of representing and reasoning propositional know ledge base. An extended version of propositional calculus is developed, and its some properties is discussed. Formulas of the extended calculus can be expressed in the extension multi-layer perceptron. Naturally, semantic deduction of prop ositional knowledge base can be implement by the extension multi-layer perceptr on, and by learning, an unknown formula set can be found.展开更多
Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent sema...Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.展开更多
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 cognitiv...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.展开更多
文摘This article takes the perspective of cognitive linguistics and applies the semantic cognitive mechanism of English idioms to analyze the motivation between the generation and meaning of idioms.It explores the teaching of English idioms based on motivation analysis and proposes several suggestions and strategies for idiom teaching,hoping to benefit English idiom teaching.
文摘English preposition is flexible word with various meaning and preposition"in"is a high-frequent word used widely in English expression. As we know, there are about 70% English sentences are metaphors, and preposition is used frequently as the backbone of metaphorical expression. Therefore, the preposition cognitive interpretation is an effective way to understand the semantic extension of preposition. This article mainly analysis the prototypical meaning and the image schema of preposition "in"and discusses the mapping process from the spatial domain to the other cognitive domain. Through analysis the metaphor semantic extension process, we might get a better understanding of it.
文摘Particle verbs can be said to possess some degree of semantic integral character in assembly of the verb plus particle.The recent cognitive study,particularly the metaphorical view,looksmuch deeper into the process of semantic formation of particle verbs,maintaining that it is the metaphorical extension in both the verb and the particle.The cognitive linguistic views on language developed in the last two decades set up the basis of the present study on particle verb.
文摘The thesis targets at a preliminary comparison of anger metaphors between Chinese and English. Compared in terms of container metaphor and containment schema from the perspective of cognitive semantics, the anger metaphorical expressions of the two languages are observed to be of differences as well as similarities.
文摘The paper presents an extension multi-laye r p erceptron model that is capable of representing and reasoning propositional know ledge base. An extended version of propositional calculus is developed, and its some properties is discussed. Formulas of the extended calculus can be expressed in the extension multi-layer perceptron. Naturally, semantic deduction of prop ositional knowledge base can be implement by the extension multi-layer perceptr on, and by learning, an unknown formula set can be found.
基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China(No.19D111201)。
文摘Current research on metaphor analysis is generally knowledge-based and corpus-based,which calls for methods of automatic feature extraction and weight calculation.Combining natural language processing(NLP),latent semantic analysis(LSA),and Pearson correlation coefficient,this paper proposes a metaphor analysis method for extracting the content words from both literal and metaphorical corpus,calculating correlation degree,and analyzing their relationships.The value of the proposed method was demonstrated through a case study by using a corpus with keyword“飞翔(fly)”.When compared with the method of Pearson correlation coefficient,the experiment shows that the LSA can produce better results with greater significance in correlation degree.It is also found that the number of common words that appeared in both literal and metaphorical word bags decreased with the correlation degree.The case study also revealed that there are more nouns appear in literal corpus,and more adjectives and adverbs appear in metaphorical corpus.The method proposed will benefit NLP researchers to develop the required step-by-step calculation tools for accurate quantitative analysis.
文摘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.