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2019•Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)Open access

Cognitive Interpretation of Polysemy

Bianqi Sun

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Metaphor and metonymy serve as a cognitive means in polyseme acquisition. This paper aims at expounding their nature and mechanism in lexical sense extension, and exploring the effective way of polysemy interpretation from a cognitive perspective. A criterion of “knowing” a word is put forward.

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Metaphor and metonymy serve as a cognitive means in polyseme acquisition. This paper aims at expounding their nature and mechanism in lexical sense extension, and exploring the effective way of polysemy interpretation from a cognitive perspective. A criterion of “knowing” a word is put forward.

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Metaphor and metonymy serve as a cognitive means in polyseme acquisition. This paper aims at expounding their nature and mechanism in lexical sense extension, and exploring the effective way of polysemy interpretation from a cognitive perspective. A criterion of “knowing” a word is put forward.

Key concepts: Polysemy, Metonymy, Interpretation (philosophy), Metaphor, Metaphor and metonymy, Extension (predicate logic), Cognition, Computer science

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