Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2013, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (09): 14-17.

Previous Articles     Next Articles

The Question-answer Pattern in Written Discourse

MIAO Xingwei   

  • Online:2013-09-15 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: Working under the framework of the embodied philosophy and cognitive linguistics, Wang Yin(2006a) conducted a detailed analysis on the cognitive process based on the embodiment to emphasize the significance of interactive embodiment. However, the cognitive process “image-image schema” has not placed due emphasis on the influence of construal. In order to make some useful contribution, building upon the concept of “image”, this essay not only touches upon the off-line cognitive processing by cognitive agent, namely, “image”, but also covers the online processing by the cognitive agent, namely, “embodiment”, while replacing “image” with the concept of “mie”. The process of semantic communication is jointly completed by speaker and listener through “mie”. Meanwhile, language user's construal has great influence on the “mie”. This essay also conducted comprehensively examined the features of listener's “mie” in different construal from the perspective of comparative study of Chinese and Japanese linguistics, concluding that Chinese speaker's construal tends to be more objective than the Japanese speaker's one.

CLC Number: