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The Emotional Expression Through Body Idioms

Posted on:2011-06-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y QuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305466111Subject:Asian and African Language and Literature
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Human will not only use the body parts to express their emotions, but also using the language to enhance the subtle emotions that cannot be expressed with the body. Thus, in our language, there are many idioms that are related to the body parts, which are crucial to the emotional expression. This dissertation focuses on "(?), (?)'(Happiness, Anger, Sad, Fear, Love, Hate)', and studies the relevant changes in our body parts when expressing the emotions of '(?)'(Happiness, Anger, Sad, Fear, Love, Hatred).First, the author classifies the idiom's concepts and describes the personal viewpoint base on the consolidation. Then, the author defines the body idioms from the form, meaning, article and other aspects. Particularly, the third chapter has elaborated the distribution use of the body idioms in the articles as well as the physiological transformation in our body when expressing various kinds of emotions. In that case, it has explained the body idiom patterns and its relationship with the emotional expressions。...
Keywords/Search Tags:idiom, idioms that are related to the body parts, expressing the emotions, classifies the expressing the emotions
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