The Semantic Extension and Generalization of Chess Words and Phrases

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.085How to use a DOI?

Keywords

playing chess, semantic extension, generalization, metaphor

Abstract

With Chinese chess vocabulary and idioms as the research objects, this paper takes an approach of the combinations of traditional word meaning research, cognitive linguistic and cultural linguistics, analyzes the mirror relationship between Chinese chess vocabulary and Chinese chess playing culture. It then sorts out the following conclusions. The prosperity of chess in Chinese history has an important impact on the language and life of society, which has spawned a large number of specialized vocabularies of chess in Chinese. Through these vocabularies, the chess culture is recorded accurately and in detail. Many chess vocabulary eventually enter into the general vocabulary through metaphors and extensions, becoming a common language in society. Words and phrases derived from chess have developed extended and metaphorical meanings beyond the literal meaning, forming a rich metaphorical system. This metaphorical system doesn’t appear out of nowhere, but is based on the cognitive concepts of “life is like chess” and “affairs of human life are like chess”.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Feng Wang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - The Semantic Extension and Generalization of Chess Words and Phrases
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 428
EP  - 432
SN  - 2352-5398
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