An Analysis Of Hand Verbs Expressing Psychological Meaning

At present, the academia has made many research achievement on the “HandsAction Verb”, but the research of the shift of expresssion category has been rare. Thepaper gives a good opportunity to the reasearch, talking about the historical evolutionfrom the “Hand Movement Category” to the “Psychological Category”. The authorcompose these verbs of three types according to their evolution path and historicalevolution achievement. The paper is divided into three chapters.The first chapter is introduction, mainly introduces the research’s currentsituation from the “Hand Movement Category” to “Psychological Category”, andintroduces the research aim and significance. At present, the academia’s achievementsof the research and evolution path are rare. The paper may be used as a reference forfuture research in this field.The second chapter makes the classification and analysis on the Hand VerbsRealize Psychological Meaning by the metaphor. Based on the current researches, thispattern of development is the most major one. Hence, there are massive words of thistype. As a matter of fact, there are slight differences among them. Some it refers to theconcept that heart is considered as a container in which objects (human beings moreoften) can be put,“Gua” can be taken as an example. While others refer to the notionthat heart is handled as a treatment, such as “Chuai” and “Mo”. However, all of themcan be employed to express the “Psychological Category” by the pattern of metaphor.The third chapter makes the classification and analysis on the Hand VerbsRealize Psychological Meaning by the metonymy or by taining the meaning of theword. In accordance of the existing researches, there are few words of these twotypes, either. When The Hand Verbs Realize Psychological Meaning by the metonymyis generally adopted a fixed words to show people’s personalities; While The HandVerbs Realize Psychological Meaning by taining the meaning of the word, there isonly one type called “Da”, often can be independent to express psychologicalmeaning after get infected with righteousness.Finally, the author makes a summary of the whole paper, makes a proposal of theconfusing questions in the process of writing, and hopes this paper would arouse theinterest.The innvocation of the paper mainly adopts the combination of the synchronic analysis method and diachronic analysis method, inductive method and deductivemethod, showing the detailed analysis and explanation of each word which has thefeature of this usage.In the process of explanation, we make the deductive inference on the evolutionpath. In turn, due to the combination between the two, the explanation is morereasonable and detailed.