| As a very important part of the vocabulary in Chinese teaching and learning, action words are always misunderstood by the learners. Holding the basic viewpoints of Cognitive Linguistics, this thesis is aimed at making an explanation to the problem and finding a possible way to solve this problem.The cognitive world behind actions words are structured by spatial cognition models, while the spatial CMs are based on our physical experience which Isaac Newton abstracted as Mechanics. Thus we call this experience "Mechanical Perception (MP)". By analyzing the MP of different actions, we can discover how actions are conceptualized and why the actions words are so various. The features of our MPs are represented in our spatial cognition models which enormously mapping other cognitive domains such as visual cognition, auditory cognition and abstract cognition.After all the representation of cognitive world, we go back to the initiatory question and find a new way which based on MP analysis to paraphrase action words. |
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