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TheSemanticWebof“Nose”anditsEnlightenmentfrom thePerspectiveofMetaphorandMetonymy

  

  1. (SchoolofNonEnglishMajors,YunnanUniversity,Kunming650091,China)
  • Online:2014-12-31 Published:2014-12-31

Abstract: Polysemyasaveryimportantlanguagephenomenonhasimportantvalueofresearch.“Nose”asanimportantorganoftheheadhasmorecognitiveadvantagesconcerningitslocationandfeature.Inaddition,humanbodytermsarethecognitivemetaconceptsandthecognitivestartingpointfortheworld,sothestudyofpolysemyofthetypicalhumanbodytermisnotonlybeneficialtorevealthebasiclawsandthecognitivemechanismofsemanticextension,butalsobeneficialtorevealthethinkingmodesandcognitivecharacteristicsofthecognitivesubjects.Moreover,metaphorandmetonymyhavelongbeenconsideredastworhetoricalmeans,andthispapercarriedonthenewexplorationofmetaphorandmetonymyfromtheperspectiveofcognition,andpointedoutthatmetaphorandmetonymyarenotonlyimportantthinkingmodesandcognitivemeans,butalsothecognitivemechanismofpolysemy.Basedonthesemanticwebofpolysemy,thispaperrevealsthatthesemanticextensionisnotarbitrary,andmetaphorandmetonymyareinterweavedintheprocessofsemanticextension,whichfurtherconfirmsthatlanguageisnotanautonomous,closedsystem,andinthiswaydismissestoacertaindegreetheSaussureslanguage“arbitrary”pointofview.

Key words: polysemy, metaphor, metonymy, cognition

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