汉语共现空间反义词扩展信息的认知研究外国语言学与应用语言学专业论文.docxVIP

M.A. M.A. Dissertation of Chongqing University ABSTRACT PAGE PAGE IV ABSTRACT The contrast between opposites in meaning usually reflects the contrast of objective world. Using antonyms can brightly indicate the opposite aspects of two conflicting things and create striking contrast. In daily life people tend to take two sides of contradiction into consideration, to get integrated generalization. Thus, researches on antonyms in English and Chinese are of great significance for not only understanding word meanings accurately and profoundly, but also enhancing rhetorical and cultural learning. There are many linguists and scholars who carry out researches on English antonyms and antonym co-occurrence in English, however, the patterns of antonym co-occurrence do not fit for relevant study on Chinese due to its characteristic of parataxis. Spatial words take important role in human’s experiences and cognition and space is the basic cognitive domain, because of which, this research chose eight pairs of spatial antonyms as our main objects and collected four-character Chinese phrases containing spatial antonyms. Employing eight pairs of Chinese antonyms, this dissertation carried out a research on the categorization and features of inserted strings in four-character phrases in Chinese, as an attempt to explore and illustrate the formative mechanism of this language phenomenon from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. On the basis of previous studies, this dissertation defined the inserted strings through vivid examples for the first time. Besides compound words, almost all phrases with Chinese antonym pairs have the expanded form A + X + B + !X or X + A + !X + B, where !X denotes the opposite of X, while A and B are the interpolated elements(named inserted strings) having the same character length. The same character length in this study is confined to one Chinese character, making the phrase a four-character phrase including the inserted strings. The probe into t