A Study Of Cognitive Meaning In Spatial Adjective "Shen" And "Qian"

Cognitive linguistics holds that space is specific to people.people's understanding of the outside world is based on the concept of space.Many non-spatial concepts in language are metaphorically derived from spatial concepts.Words have always been the focus of cognitive linguistics.The spatial adjective is a category of spatial words.The "deep and shallow" direction of spatial adjectives is the most complicated,vertical and parallel to the horizontal plane.Therefore,this paper chooses "deep" and "shallow" to do cognitive semantic case study.According to the relevant theory of cognitive semantics,the following research is carried out on the spatial adjective "deep and shallow" : First,according to the theory of cognitive metaphor,on the basis of the meaning of "deep" space,through the analysis of dictionary and corpus,“Shallow” metaphorical meaning and reveal the path of its metaphor;Second,through the dictionary and corpus analysis to explain the "deep,shallow" semantics from the space field to the non-spatial field of projection and mapping rules;Third,the study of "deep" and "shallow" as an antonyms imbalance;Fourthly,according to the differences between "deep" and "shallow" and "deep" and "shallow" in Chinese,the similarity and individuality of Chinese and English metaphor in space category are studied.“Shallow”and other easy to produce errors in the space adjectives in the semantic contrast,to predict the teaching may encounter difficulties;sixth,according to the Spatial adjectives "deep","shallow" above the cognitive semantic study results,Giving a practical teaching suggestion for teaching Chinese as second language.