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Seeing "Philosophy In The Flesh" And "Conceptual Blending Theory" From Xiehouyu

Posted on:2009-04-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Z JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245457841Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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The reason this article review Chinese language's Xiehouyu is that Xiehouyu is a particular sort of expressive mode the Han nationality. By means of the descriptive analogy, the rich associations and the humorous and amusing style, the Chinese form a kind of ideogenetic expression, namely Chinese language's Xiehouyu. Its connotation with cultural characteristic is very vivid and attractive, which is the language treasure and culture crystal, brief, profound and lively. Xiehouyu is coagulated with the crystal of Chinese people's wisdom, which contains profound and meaningful Chinese philosophy and thought. In the opinion of the foreigners, it is also a sort of expression that they are very excited and curious about. However, the predecessors have not yet try to generalize this particular expression of Chinese language's Xiehouyu. Therefore, this text article is going to summarize the notion of Xiehouyu' meaning, on the ground that has already been covered. American cognitive linguist, Lakoff & Johnson, in his book, Metaphors We Live by (1980), discuss foundations of philosophy basis for the first time. And in 1990, his book, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and is Challenge to Western Thought, was published, which is called Philosophy in the Flesh for short in this article. The philosophical view of cognitive linguistics is experiential realism. Its main point is to study the physical structure of organism and the experience to comprehend the meaning. One of most important concepts is embodiment. It is concept structure, which comes from an subject to the pre-conceptual, the flesh structure experience, that make it sense. On the basis of Mental Spaces (1985/1994), in 1997, Fauconnier published Mappings in Thought ,Language, and put forward the conceptual blending theory, developed "four-space" model to study the extensive phenomenon of conceptual blending, and demonstrated the cognition operation of the interaction between Mental Spaces to construct the significance of natural language. Blend must possess emergent structure. It is the heart of conceptual blending, and is also the structure to form the new concept. Cognition operation mostly woks in the emergent structure by composition, completion and elaboration. According to its own logic, the elaboration, which calls running the blend, does cognition operation in the blend. The target and innovation of this article is as follows: first, propose the notion of Xiehouyu' meaning, and divide it into the realistic meaning and imaginary meaning; second, show disputable evaluation of Philosophy in the Flesh, put forward translational problems and show the unreasonable matters of Philosophy in the Flesh and Experiential Realism by reviewing on the notion of Xiehouyu' meaning; third, show the evaluation on the conceptual blending theory and the reasons why it cannot to be true.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xiehouyu, embodiment, philosophy in the flesh, conceptual blending theory, emergent structure
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