Cognitive Study On Word Meaning System Of Chinese Words Or Phrases With "Hong"

Chinese words or phrases with “Hong” is a special category in Chinese color wordssystem.Borrow ideas from the related theory in cognitive linguistics,focus on discussing andanalysising the cognitive motivation of meaning system of Chinese words or phrases with“Hong”. According to the collected corpus we can find that the meaning of "Hong" presentsthe features like bipolarity, richness and dynamicness.The reason why the meaning system of"Hong" is extended is the joint action which include economic principles in languagedevelopment, the arbitrariness and stipulations of language sign, and the variability of basicvocabulary semantic. The formation of meaning system is a dynamic process. The languageuser constantly expand their cognitive categories and form new concepts on the basis of thebasic category through the specific cognitive means. The cognitive of “Hong” expands fromthe basic color domain to emotions, attitudes, state, political, economic and other abstractdomains. The premise condition of the expansion is that the two areas have some relevance,similarity or relativity which is from human general experience. The essence of the extendingis the metaphor and metonymy. The cognitive motivation of Chinese words or phrases with“Hong” contain metaphor, metonymy and dynamic view three aspects. The cognitive ofChinese words or phrases with “Hong” is also influenced by social reasons besides theinternal factors. The social reasons of word meaning system of Chinese words or phrases with“Hong” mainly include national, history, culture and so on. It has important revelation incognitive analysis for word meaning system of other language, and makes further specific tryin researching modern Chinese from cognitive linguistics subject.