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.
emotion-caused result constructionform and meaning featurescognitive motivationcontrast between English and Chinese
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