An Embodied-Cognitive Linguistic Study on the Abstraction Sentence in Chinese
Abstraction is indispensable in language use,and the abstraction sentences in Chinese often cause difficulties in under-standing.Further studies on the abstraction sentences in Chinese from the perspective of embodied-cognitive linguistics are conducive to Chinese language and literature education and international Chinese education,and it can help learners better understand and generate sentences.Under the guidance of one of the core principles of Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics,i.e."reality→using language to repre-sent reality plus cognitive operation→utterance",this article explores the generation and the grammatical and pragmatical characteris-tics of the abstraction sentences in Chinese based on the Action Event Concept Frame Theory and the Conceptual Metonymy Theory.Abstraction sentences in Chinese are generated by hiding or omitting frame elements,formal markers,or both frame elements and for-mal markers.The demonstration of abstraction is"action events → Chinese+hiding or omitting → abstraction sentences",reflecting the diversity of Chinese sentence rules and the support of shared knowledge structures in sentence generation.The grammatical and pragmatical characteristics of abstraction sentences in Chinese are represented in various aspects,e.g.formal collocation,semantic logic and transparency,prosodic rules,economic principles,as well as highlighting and emphasizing,etc.
Embodied-Cognitive LinguisticsAction Event Concept Framehanding or omittingmetonymygrammatical and prag-matical characteristics
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