Cognitive Study of the Processing of Idioms

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10.2991/assehr.k.191217.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

idioms, metaphor theory, conceptual integration theory

Abstract

This chapter attempts to establish the role of two cognitive linguistic theories, metaphor theory and conceptual integration theory, in the processing of both conventional and modified phraseological units. It investigates the range of applications and interpretations of the existing cognitive models, furnishing them with attested phraseological material to test their efficiency and applicability as processing templates. It is argued that the two theories can be viewed as complementary: whereas the theory of metaphor is productive in accounting for the processing of a wide range of conventional phraseological units, the theory of conceptual integration can be applied to the analysis of modified phraseological units.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fangfang Ding
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Cognitive Study of the Processing of Idioms
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 403
EP  - 405
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.157
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.157
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