BT+ Approach to the Meaning Construction of Metonymy-Based Chinese Cyber-Expressions

Xiaogang You; Liang Liang

doi:10.54097/ijeh.v5i2.2186

Authors

Xiaogang You
Liang Liang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v5i2.2186

Keywords:

metonymy-based, Cyber-expressions, Blending Theory, Meaning construction.

Abstract

China has the biggest population of netizens in the world and more and more cybernauts often use cyber-expressions in their Internet communication and some cyber-expressions are even used in our daily life offline. With the increasing popularity of these cyber-expressions, they have caught the eyes of more and more scholars and these expressions’ formation and meaning construction are analyzed from many perspectives. From the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics, the Chinese cyber-expressions are formed with the help of such cognitive mechanisms as metaphor, icon iconicity, metonymy and metaphtonymy. While the metonymy-based e-terms account for a large proportion of all the new cyber-expressions, little is discussed about metonymy-based expressions in previous studies related to the Chinese cyber-expressions. In the present paper, 752 metonymy-based e-terms from a closed corpus will be studied exhaustively and the meaning construction of these kinds of expressions will be systematically analyzed based on the Blending Theory under the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an attempt to fill the gap in the previous studies.

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