A COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINESE IDIOMS INVOLVING BODY PARTS
Journal Title: Topics In Education, Culture and Social Development (TECSD) - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
In this article we analyze idioms involving body parts in Chinese in an effort to explore their intrinsic formation mechanisms based upon embodied philosophy and perceptual symbol systems. To this end, such idioms are deciphered specifically in the light of their physical features and their situated conceptualization. It is in this process that we find a systematic correspondence between body parts and how they trigger cognitive activities in human mind. This completed, we further list three principles that are in line with the formation of such idioms which are of preliminary but general importance in terms of interpreting how cognitive mechanisms work to incorporate human body into human language.
Authors and Affiliations
Zhong Deng, Die Hu
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