A Study Of The Cognitive Mechanism Of "jia-N" Construction With BM Model

As a special branch of the "adj-n" construction,the "jia-n" construction has been talked about frequently by many linguists.Based on Kamp's "fake gun" research,conceptual integration theory and cognitive reference points are used several times to analyze the cognitive mechanisms behind it,but few scholars talk about cases other than "fake gun" and most of their researches are based on the perspective of the interpretive school.They believe that the generation of the meaning is only the result of the combination of the adjective "fake" and the noun "gun" under the background knowledge.From the perspective of embodied philosophy,this paper makes a three-level decomposition of the semantic generation process of the "jia-n" construction based on the meaning-generating model of "reality-cognition-language".By constructing the blending-metonymy model(BM Model for short),it reveals the "five-space" mapping structure and the double-level metonymic cognitive mechanism behind it.In the fourth chapter of the paper,the author selects 565 words that conform to the "jia-n" construction from the BCC corpus,and uses the BM model to perform qualitative and quantitative analysis.According to the traditional classification of nouns,the author analyzes the spatial mapping process of each type of word,and finally concludes that the effect of the adjective "jia" on subsequent "noun" is reflected from the following seven attributes: form,material,content,function,identity,brand,status.(See Table 4.9)In the conclusion part,the contribution of this paper is summarized as following:First,since a single theory is not sufficient to explain various relevant questions about "jia-n" construction,the author builds the BM model to explore the unique cognitive mechanism behind it and puts up the "five-space" mapping hypothesis to develop the traditional "four-space" mapping.Second,through spatial mapping and metonymy theory,the author finds that although the adjective "jia" has multiple levels of negations on attributes of its subsequent "noun",we usually focus only on the most prominent one.Thirdly,through corpus analysis,the authors summarizes the common methods of zao jia and provides theoretical support for the majority of staff to recognize jia goods and eliminate the relevant impacts.