A Comparison Of The Near-sense Directional Words "Zhong" "Li" And "Nei" From A Metaphorical Perspective And Suggestions For Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

“Zhong”“Li”and “Nei” are a group of similar words in Chinese orientation words,which have many grammatical,semantic and pragmatic similarities.When international students learn these words,they are likely to make mistakes.Therefore,this paper selects “Zhong”“Li” and “Nei” as the main object of study,and summarizes the results of previous research on ontology and foreign Chinese language research.The first part of this paper is the introduction,and the second part is the discussion of the three groups.The first part of this paper is the introduction,which explains the environment of this thesis from the meaning of the topic,the purpose of the study,the current situation of the study,and the research method.The first chapter is a comparative analysis of “Zhong”“Li” and “Nei”.The main focus is on the grammatical and semantic aspects.First,we analyze and summarize what grammatical components can enter the structure of “X Zhong/Li/Nei”.Secondly,the semantics of “X Zhong/Li/Nei” in the sentence is examined in terms of both basic and metaphorical meanings.Finally,we compare and summarize the similarities and differences of the three structures at the grammatical and semantic levels.The second chapter examines the biases of Chinese learners in “Zhong”“Li” and“Nei”based on the HSK dynamic composition corpus.The errors of “Zhong”“Li”and “Nei”are categorized according to their semantic types,depicted from the perspectives of basic meaning and metaphorical meaning,and finally the causes of the errors are analyzed.The third chapter firstly puts forward a few suggestions for teaching Chinese as a foreign language based on the previous analysis,and secondly,examines and analyzes the“Zhong”“Li”and “Nei” in the commonly used comprehensive Chinese as a foreign language textbook《Experience Chinese》.language point distribution and classified them according to their basic and metaphorical meanings.Based on the results of the analysis,suggestions are made for the development of the textbook.The last part is the concluding remarks.The main ideas of this paper are summarized,and the shortcomings of this study and the need for improvement are presented.