Cognitive Linguistic Interpretation of Chinese"Very+N"Structure and Its Teaching to Chinese as a Foreign Language
The structure of'Very+N'is irregular in traditional Chinese grammar.However,this expression is common in real life and in literature works.Scholars have studied this structure from various perspectives,including constructive grammar,prototypical category,ambiguity,and syntactic structure.The'Very+N'structure reflects the mapping process of conceptual metaphor,which in-volves selecting the source and target domains,considering the similarity between the conceptual domains,and carrying out the map-ping.This is based on the theory of conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics.The process of mapping demonstrates the similarity and dissimilarity of conceptual domains.It also validates the'Very+N'structure and has significant value in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
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