The Cognitive Analysis Of Oxymoron From The Perspective Of The Play Game

Oxymoron, as a kind of rhetorical figure, is used frequently and continually inlanguages. The article first discussed the cognitive motivation on which oxymoronwas profoundly based and motivated. People’s contradictive experience is the key forthe cognition of oxymoron.Furthermore, the article applied an economic theory to explain the generativeprocess of oxymoron. Generally speaking, the cognition of oxymoron is difficultbecause of its special grammatical construction. For the features of the game playersand the forming of the oxymoron are highly similar, so the application of game theorycan simplify by a long way the generative process of oxymoron. According to thegame theory, the generative process of oxymoron can be divided into three steps:1)Incompatible words keep balance;2) The balance of incompatible words is broken upfor the effect of specific context;3) Incompatible words play their own roles,achieving the best effectiveness of oxymoron.Finally, the article summarized the cognition functions of oxymoron, they are:language is simple and novel; meaning is easy to understand; full of emotion,philosophy, and persuasion. These cognitive functions of oxymoron are the specificreflection of its utility.