A Contrastive Study of Zhong Metaphors in Chinese and Middle Metaphors in English
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| Title | A Contrastive Study of Zhong Metaphors in Chinese and Middle Metaphors in English |
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| Abstract | The present study analyzes the metaphorical extensions of the Chinese spatial term zhong and the English spatial term middle. It finds that The essay finds both ZHONG and MIDDLE are found to be used in the target domains of STATES, RANK and TIME, which further provides a piece of evidence that our abstract reasoning is partly structured by our spatial thinking through schematic mapping and metaphorical extension. The present study also concludes that the spatial metaphorical system among different languages may share some cognitive universals as well as cross-linguistic variations. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2011-08-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 8 (2011) |
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