A Study Of The Words And Phrases In Wang Shi - Zhi 's Geography

Wangshixing’s three geography books are important in modern times.lt mainly records the author had seen and heard in the process of visiting, and using a large amount of locative words to express orientation concept. Three books’ language is naturalness, and simple to understand, so choosing Wangshixing three geography books’ locative words as the research object,carries on exhaustive investigation,doing the synchronic and diachronic comparison and cognitive analysis,to truly represent the three books’ locative.words.The article will be divided into the following four parts.The introduction part mainly discusses the selected topic significance, locative words’ research situation, define of locative words and the research method.The second part, according to the locative words’definition of three books,to carry on exhaustive investigation,so we can truly represent the semantic situation of the three books’ locative words.The third part mainly analyzes the locative words’ grammatical function and combination,so we can truly represent the grammatical situation of the three books’ locative words.The fourth part uses the cognitive linguistics theory of metaphor to analyze the locative words of three books.Then talks about the relationship between the body parts noun and locative words,and the cause of transformation.Through research we can find, the quantity of three books’locative words is rich, and the semantics is given priority to with semantic expression space.Then there are examples to express table position and social relation.Locative words can act as many grammatical components,such as subject/predicate/object/attribute/adverbial,mainly as adverbial.Match the parts of speech is more,the scope of the noun with the collocation is expanded.The semantic aspect,three books’locative words have rich meaning,and dual tone locative words have more self-sufficiency,can act as subject and adverbial independently.Then using the cognitive linguistics theory of metaphor to analyze the locative words of three books,and we find that there are some locative words can represent social level,commonly used to metaphor the social relations and status.At the same time the expression is also in accordance with people’s cognitive style.