Semantic Analysis And Cultural Connotation Of "Gate" And The Words Including "Gate"

Gate as the part of the construction,it has been in our life for a long time.In the dictionary,its meanings expand round the matter gate.This article selects ten senses that having tight contact from the Chinese Dictionary.Most of them evole from the original meaning of "gate" by metonymy and metaphor.The morpheme"gate" participate in many polysemes.This paper sorts out twelve kinds of rouths of extension and emphatically analyses four rouths of them.As the part of the construction,its meaning isn't only limited in"the equipment that can open and close at the access",but expand to abundant culture connotation including folk custom,social institution and literature image.lt contains gate worship and gate taboo in the folk custom.In the matter of social institution,the gate's number,shape and decoration all reflect the feudal system.As for literature, gate is a inimitable image in the acient poems and the literary works.After the Watergate Scandal of America in 1972, "gate" generally evolve new usage,from the radical to affix.This usage expands to other countrys from the U.S.A.In our country,it comes into being a great deal of "～gate"phrases."Gate"increases a new meaning besides its tradional senses.This paper take many "-gate"appearing in America,England,China and many other countrys for example to analyze the expanding routh and the reason why this structure can be the fashion.