How Language to Make Advantage of Body Movements to Configure the State Meaning and Result Meaning

Seen from the Absence of State Meaning of Compound Directional Verbs “Guolai /Guoqu” in Mandarin

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.106How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Path Schema; Path; Guo(过); State Meaning; Asymmetry

Abstract

Through the analysis of compound directional verbs with theories of cognitive linguistics such as Image Schema, Construal Operation and Spatialization of Form Hypothesis, we can find the cognitive motivation of the lack of State Meaning of “guolai/guoqu” which derives from the uniqueness of “Path” of their “SOURCE-PATH-GOAL” Schema. The “path” of “guolai/guoqu” can include many kinds of pathways, and the unique usages of compound structure “kailai/kaiqu” and “huilai/huiqu” can also gain the same cognitive interpretations due to the “Paths” of their Image Schemas. The uniqueness of “PATH” of PATH SCHEMA is one of the most important cognitive motivations which leads to the asymmetries and uniqueness of compound directional verbs.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhixin Zhou
AU  - Wen Jiang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - How Language to Make Advantage of Body Movements to Configure the State Meaning and Result Meaning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 558
EP  - 565
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.106
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.106
ID  - Zhou2022
ER  -