A Study of Semantic Generation of the Metaphorical Negation Construction
Under the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Dynamic Category Theory,this paper,with the help of the thought of unity of opposites,proposes the Conceptual Metaphor-Dynamic Category Model(CMDCM)to elucidate the semantic generation of the Metaphorical Negation Construction.The whole process can be described as follows:Firstly,the compatibility of the front slot and the back slot grows out of the formation of the superordinate category above the two slots.The schematic meaning of this category is the basis on which the two slots compare their semantic quantities.Secondly,the thinking mode of the unity of opposites makes the two slots a temporary pair of antonyms indicating their semantic quantities respectively.Then the speaker marks these quantities onto a mental semantic scale.Thus,the semantic scalar emerges.Thirdly,there are two groups of mapping in the semantic generation process of the metaphorical negation construction.The mappings initiated by the front slot is blocked by those initiated by the back one,because the latter takes priority over the former and occupies all the paths of mapping.It follows that the new metaphor hides the old one.
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