A Cognitive-Topological Study of Chinese and English Entity-and-Event Riddles
The entity-and-event riddle is prevalent in both Chinese and English,being not only a language phenomenon with a gaming nature,but also a special cognitive process.The topological interactional relationships between and within the three spaces of the physical world,the mind and the language,lay the foundation for the cognitive topological analysis of entity-and-event riddles.From the perspective of cognitive topology,the cognition of entity-and-event riddles includes the two processes:extraction of topological properties and construction of topological homeomorphisms from language space to cognitive space;topological matching from conceptual space to objective space.The construction of the topological homeomorphism between the riddle-question-based language world,the subject's mental world,and the riddle-answer's objective world,is the key to accomplish the cognitive processing of the entity-and-event riddles.In accordance with the three cognitive kinds of Chinese and English entity-and-event riddles(metaphorical,metonymical,and hybrid),cross-domain,within-domain and complex topological homeomorphisms can be constructed respectively.In addition,the cognitive subject will match the entity-and-event riddle to the real world based on his/her encyclopedic knowledge as well as reasoning ability,and eventually complete the cognitive processing of the entity-and-event riddle with the help of riddle clue.
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