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Cognitive Mechanism of Semantic Extension of Words

Zhao De-quan

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A cognitive study of semantic extension,in light of the theories of cognitive semantics,reveals that metaphor and metonymy,as two main cognitive approaches,provide a cognitive motivation of semantic extension of words,and that metaphor and metonymy interact together in the process of words semantic extension,and a word meaning extends and changes in a spoke wise fashion interlaced by a concatenate pattern,in which metaphorical and metonymic mappings are interwoven.

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Key concepts: Metonymy, Extension (predicate logic), Cognitive semantics, Metaphor and metonymy, Metaphor, Cognition, Meaning (existential), Semantics (computer science)