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The processing of two-character lexicons in Chinese of metaphors was examined using event related potentials (ERPs). The main findings of this study is that, first, as Chinese writing system belongs to the ideogram, that Chinese characters symbolizing the idea(meaning) of a thing without indicating the sound used to say it, the metaphor effect revealed by ERPs not only shows in the sentence level...
This chapter considers “political discourse” as the linguistically grounded analysis of political language. While there are many other areas that focus on political discourse, for example, “rhetoric,” there is limited concern with language theory and the role of language in the construction of the “political” itself. The chapter sets the role of “representation” as the core concern of much political...
In 21st century, computer English keeps updated with the new invention of computer science and technology. The translation of computer English becomes increasingly important and more and more difficult. In this research, the authors who have rich experience in computer English translation will study the syntactic characteristics of computer English and discuss the corresponding translation strategies.
Metaphor is the result of human mind conceptualizing the world. In many previous studies about metaphor, space and time are thought to be the two most fundamental concepts in cognition, by which other concepts are constructed. Nevertheless, discussion of the metaphoric structuring of time in natural language is rare, not to mention the time concept in Chinese. This paper aims to evaluate whether the...
While Kansei has a variety of meanings, it is important to integrate those various meanings and form an essential model of Kansei being applicable to engineering. In this paper, we propose a conceptual cognitive scheme of Kansei assuming that the basic notion of Kansei consists of two functions in mind, i.e.,1) how to feel the world and 2) how to represent it. It is a unique point of the scheme to...
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