On Image Schemas of Comparatives in English and Chinese

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10.2991/iceiss-17.2017.72How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Comparative; Image Schema; English; Chinese

Abstract

Comparative is one of the basic semantic categories and its representation varies. Previous researches mainly focus on certain syntactic constructions, but systematic studies on comparative category are scarce. English and Chinese schematic representations are observed in this paper. We find that: 1) there are action schema, location schema, goal schema, sequence schema, polarity schema and particle schema as to English and Chinese comparative representations; and among these six schemas; 2) some represent dynamic events while others represent static ones; 3) some schemas are basic while some others are evolved via grammaticalization; 4) some schemas are blended and the mechanism of blending needs further investigation.

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© 2017, 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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BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2017)
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