Chinese Five Elements Conceptual Metaphors on Time and Space
Authors
Wu Di
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Wu Di
Available Online December 2018.
- DOI
- 10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- five elements; conceptual metaphor; embodiment; culture
- Abstract
Five Element Principle occupies an important position in traditional Chinese philosophy. This paper explores the conceptual metaphors of Five Elements on time and space, which might help construe the cognitive mechanism on time and space of Chinese ancients. The analysis shows that Chinese ancients tended to understand time and space through the concrete elements which is thought as the elementary materials to construct universe. The cognitive mechanism also attributes to Chinese unique culture model Daoism.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wu Di PY - 2018/12 DA - 2018/12 TI - Chinese Five Elements Conceptual Metaphors on Time and Space BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 449 EP - 453 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97 DO - 10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.97 ID - Di2018/12 ER -