Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2015, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (11): 18-23.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2015.11.005

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Study on the Metaphorical Mechanism of Verb with Thinking Activity Meaning

PENG Yuhai, LV Ye   

  • Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: Thinking activity belongs to human’s spirit and will action of invisible hierarchy, often needs to be expressed through method of metaphoric-cognitive semantics in language. The paper selects typical verb word and verbal phrase, idiom with shift meaning of thinking activity as object, and analyzes metaphor mechanism and cognitive operation of the unique thinking verb from metaphorical image schema and cognitive model. The analysis would widen horizons of verbal metaphorical research, provide new theoretical clue for exploring verbal cognitive semantics and metaphor theory, and moreover, provide new revelation for studying verb polysemy and its cognitive semantics.

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