The conceptual structure of emotion-caused result event has pan-cultural feature in English and Chinese,but the form and meaning of emotion-caused result construction in English and Chinese varies.The form of emotion-caused result construction in English is mainly encoded as"N1+VR+in/with/for/out of+NE",high-lighting the causee in meaning.The form of emotion-caused result construction in Chinese is mainly encoded as"N1+VE+VR+N2"and"N1+VE+De+N2+VR",highlighting the causer in meaning.The emotion-caused result construction in English contains the conceptual metaphor of EMOTION IS ENTITY,which reflects the ab-stract thinking mode of English people.The emotion-caused result construction in Chinese contains the conceptual metaphor of EMOTION IS FORCE,which reflects the image thinking mode of Chinese people.
关键词
情感致使结果构式/形义特征/认知理据/英汉对比
Key words
emotion-caused result construction/form and meaning features/cognitive motivation/contrast between English and Chinese