A Contrastive Cognitive Semantic Analysis of “Mountain”&“Shan”
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https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v6i3.4331Keywords:
Mountain, Contrastive cognitive semantic analysis, Principled polysemy analysis.Abstract
Based on the related corpus of "mountain" and "shan," this study uses the principled polysemy analysis method to conduct a contrastive analysis of the cognitive meanings of the two words. It is found that the archetypal meaning of "mountain" is the same in English and Chinese, but the extended meaning derived from the metaphor is similar and different, which reflects the coexistence of universality and difference in the perception of the concept of the mountain by English and Chinese users. Therefore, foreign language vocabulary teaching should pay attention to the network structure of word meaning and grasp the archetypal meaning and the extended meaning of words.
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