Jiang Tin
Abstract
Metaphor plays an important role in human' s cognition of the world. As a kind of image schema, spatial metaphor constructs many abstract concepts. The present research is focused on two spatial concepts up and down and explores their prototype meanings, metaphorical extension and cognitive basis by searching them in the Brown Corpus.
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Metaphor plays an important role in human' s cognition of the world. As a kind of image schema, spatial metaphor constructs many abstract concepts. The present research is focused on two spatial concepts up and down and explores their prototype meanings, metaphorical extension and cognitive basis by searching them in the Brown Corpus.
Key concepts: Metaphor, Schema (genetic algorithms), Image schema, Extension (predicate logic), Cognition, Cognitive science, Conceptual metaphor, Point (geometry)