Chinese Hyperbole Idiom Research

As an active element, Chinese hyperbolic idiom has experienced several thousand years with the development of human society, the linguistics and the reform of history. It can be classified into such categories as vocabulary, grammar and rhetorical figure. By grammatical unit, it belongs to the first level: phrase ( Qi Hu-yang :2002) ; by usage, it is vocabulary ( Zhang Bin :2002 ) ; by rhetorical figure, it is hyperbole. So naturally it not only has nature of the idiom but also its own characteristic and methodology.With dynamic and developing eyesight, the essay tries to discuss syntax structure, characteristic and using value of idioms on three aspects: description, cognitive linguistics and systematic theory.The paper has five parts and the main body is divided into four parts except for a foreword and a conclusion.The foreword expounds significance of choosing the subject, international current situation, research method in the paper, the author's thoughts and the main plan, corpus resource and the appendix.The first chapter begins with the discussion of emerging factor, style and usage of Chinese hyperbolic idiom. then continues with the qualitative and quantitative research of hyperbolic idiom with descriptive linguistics. And the author makes thorough statistics.The second chapter discusses internal form, structural type and semantics function of Chinese hyperbolic idiom, followed by the study of another qualitative and quantitative research of hyperbolic idiom with descriptive linguistics. And the author makes thorough statistics again.The third chapter pays attention to the cognitive mechanism. With cognitive linguistics theory, the author gives a scientific illustration of it on aspects: cognitive feature, quantification distinction between hyperbolic idioms and figurative idioms.The fourth chapter studies its developing course, development of syntax component, relation between syntax semantics and lexical meaning as well as its applied value. With the help of the computer, the paper thoroughly investigates the use and changes of ten Chinese hyperbolic idioms from Xian Qin and two Han dynasty and Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing up to contemporary literature with systematic theory, comparative method and documentary metrology.The last chapter concludes the essay.