Research On Naming Motivation In The Metal Utensils Words Of Shuowen Jinbu

The arrival of the Bronze Age, iron age brings not only the development of socialproductive forces, and has spawned the development of metal words,metal utensils areclosely related to people’s production and life, appliance names have the motivations, theformation of the name is the result of people in daily life and the use of objective attributes ofcognitive properties of metal utensils, it has fun and regularity, this paper on the basis of thetheory of at all times, on the basis of language view of cognitive linguistics “Language hasjustified nature”, and draw lessons from modern linguistic theories, with the selected "ShuoWen Jin Bu " 62 metal utensils words as the object of study, trying to explore 62 metal utensilsclass naming words justifications, and analyze the reasons, further illustrate the ancient metalutensils named characteristics and laws. This article is divided into five parts.The first part, introduction. Briefly explain the purpose of this study, the research task,the research value, research significance and theoretical basis and research methods, thispaper demonstrated homologous relationship between the pronunciation and meaningstandard, and manage to about ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign words according tothe research and appliance words were reviewed.The second part, clear definition and research scope and the metal utensils wordclassification. According to said "Shuo Wen Jie Zi " explanation clear of instruments, such asmeaning, through to the commonly used appliances that determine the scope of this articleselects words, and with reference to the ancient " Gu Ci Bian" "Ming Wu Da Dian" of theselected metal appliances classification of words.The third part, analysis of metal utensils word naming motivation.To explore is the focusof this article, one by one in detail will be selected metal ware words to explore, through thedepartment of cognates and sememe analysis reveals etymological meaning, and press to findout the reason, according to the characteristics of naming to categorize. This paper exploredthe justifications types are divided: Sexuality justifications, function justifications,actionjustifications,sound justifications for the four main types of justifications.The fourth part, search for metal utensils class naming rules and characteristics of words,by analyzing the naming justifications type, summed named after the ancient laws ofmetal utensils: Visual angle based, sexuality is its main justification naming, sexualityjustifications to the physical characteristics of the main justifications for the function name isalso an important justification. Combined with the theory of cognitive linguistics analysis ofthe ancients named features: figurative intuitive, associative analogy, highlighting thedifference between sex, taking as unity, social empirical.The fifth part, conclusion. Research results of this paper are briefly summarized, andpointed out shortcomings.