2011•Journal of Qinzhou UniversityRequires access
On the Embodiment of Orientation Metaphor
Wang Zhao
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Abstract
Embodied philosophy claims that language has embodied property.It emphasizes that the meaning comes from multiple interactive between bodily experience and social experience of cognitive model for understanding.The embodied property of orientation metaphor can be testified from the following three aspects:system,multidimention and consistence with its culture.Embodied philosophy and cognitive linguistics provide a new angle for understanding the world.