The Cognitive Analysis Of The "ban A Ban B" Format

The Pattern of "ban A ban B"is very common in modern Chinese, but the research on it is relatively quite rare. From the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this thesis includes the following aspects:its components, semantic features, syntax functions and pragmatic values. The main parts of the thesis includes the following four chapters:The first chapter:Investigate and analyze the internal components of "ban A ban B" format. First, based on the combination of form and meaning, judged the grammatical nature of "ban" as a morpheme; Second, analyzed the composition of A,B; Third, introduced the order of iconicity principle to investigate the sequence of A and B.The second chapter:Discuss on the cognitive semantic features of "ban A ban B" format. On the one hand, summarized the semantic types of the format; On the other hand, reveals the grammatical features of the structure:A,B must be categorized as well as be the member of the same category besides, there must be resemblance between A and B; in addition, the format must have the boundedness characteristic.The third chapter:Investigate the grammatical functions of "ban A ban B" format. This part not only include the research on its syntactic positions and diachronic development, but use some related cognitive theories such as the metaphor theory and the conceptual blending theory to analyze the structure and consider it forms the phrases which evolve a developmental continuum, further investigated the cognitive process and the mental representation of the format.The last chapter:Study on the pragmatic values of the format. Which consisting of the style value, the emotional value and the expressive value of the format.