Cognitive Approach to Metaphor From Metonymy in Classical Chinese Poetry

“Mental Space Mapping in Classical Chinese Poetry: A Cognitive Approach” Professor

1 Introduction Primary verbal composite modelling, as manifested in cognitive poetry, raises serious theoretical questions over the nature and function of the linguistic sign (Stockwell 2002). If language as a conventional symbolic system qualifies as the Peircian Thirdness, it cannot possibly be at the same time a Firstness. Rather than getting once again into the infinitely boring debate on t...

Analyzing Sentiment in Classical Chinese Poetry

Although sentiment analysis in Chinese social media has attracted a lot of interest in recent years, it has been less explored in traditional Chinese literature (e.g., classical Chinese poetry) due to the lack of sentiment lexicon resources. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised approach based on Weighted Personalized PageRank (WPPR) to create a sentiment lexicon for classical Chinese p...

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Metonymy, as often treated as a subtype of metaphor by cognitive linguistics, has a different working mechanism; metaphor is based on perceived similarity between things while metonymy on the relationship within things themselves. Cognition and the use of language involve the access and manipulation of mental spaces, which are constructed from human perceptual experience and are extended throug...

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The aim of the book is a semantic theory of metonymy and metaphor, called "collative semantics," and its implementation in the meta5 program. Before entering the core of the topic, Fass gives the reader definitions for some tropes (figures of speech), most, if not all of them, related to metaphor and metonymy (Chapter 2). The tropes are classified according to their nature: comparison, contigui...

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