Cover not available
Part of
Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres
Edited by Wei Wang
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse 13] 2020
► pp. 59–72

Chapter 4
Windows of attention and the polysemy of V-kai

| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

This paper analyses the polysemy of the structure of V-kai based on windows of attention and finds that it has three different meanings, including result, result and direction, condition, which respectively include some different subordinate meanings. It is the result of different patterns of path windowing. Specifically, result is the result of final path windowing. Result and direction is the result of medial and final path windowing. Condition is the result of initial and medial path windowing. Making use of mechanism of analogy, metaphor and metonymy, they produce some different subordinate meanings. Because of economy principle of language, it is necessary for the language construction to change from expressing one meaning to expressing more, leading to the increase of semantic capacity.

Keywords: V-kai structure, windows of attention, polysemy, mechanism, semantic capacity
Article outline
  • 引言
  • “V开” 结构的路径事件框架
  • 结果义
    • 由关闭到打开
      • “打开”义
      • “扩展”义
      • “使舒畅”义
    • 由整合到分离
      • “分开”义
      • “离开”义
      • “区分”义
      • “容纳”义
  • 结果兼趋向义
    • “展开”义
    • “扩散”义
  • 状态义
    • “位移的产生及持续”义
    • “动作的开始及持续”义
    • “新情况的出现及持续”义
  • “V开”结构同构异义形成过程
  • 结语
  • 注释
  • 参考文献

Article language: Chinese

Published online: 28 August 2020
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/scld.13.04lia
References

参考文献

Deng, Yu 邓宇
2014 “注意力视窗开启在路径事件框架中的现实化 [Attention window opens realistically in the path event frame].”《外语教学》 (Foreign Language Education) (2): 14–18.Google Scholar
Fillmore, C.
1982 “Frame semantics.” In Linguistics in the Morning Calm, ed. by Linguistic Society of Korea, 111–137. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Co.Google Scholar
Huang, Jianqin 黄建勤, Zhang Junqiang 张俊强
2016 “注意力窗口化与“在”类构式及习得问题 [Attention windowing and “in” construction and acquisition problems].”对外汉语研究 (Studies of Chinese as a Foreign Language)(1): 52–61.Google Scholar
Langacker, R. W.
1987 Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, V.1: Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
Liang, Yinfeng 梁银峰
2007 《汉语趋向动词的语法化》 (Grammaticalization of Chinese Trending Verbs).上海：学林出版社 (Shanghai, China: Xuelin Press).Google Scholar
Liu, Yuehua 刘月华
1998 《趋向补语通释》 (Directional Complement).北京：北京语言大学出版社.(Beijing, China: Beijing Language and Culture University Press).Google Scholar
Lv, Shuxiang 吕叔湘
2004 [1999] 《现代汉语八百词（增订本）》 (800 words in Modern Chinese).北京：商务印书馆(Beijing, China: The Commercial Press).Google Scholar
Meng, Cong 孟琮等
2003 《汉语动词用法词典》 (Chinese Verb Usage Dictionary).北京：商务印书馆(Beijing, China: The Commercial Press).Google Scholar
Shu, Dingfang 束定芳
2008 《认知语义学》 (Cognitive Semantics).上海：上海外语教育出版社(Shanghai, China: Foreign Language Education Press).Google Scholar
Talmy, L.
1975 Semantics and Syntax of Motion. In J. Kimball, ed. Syntax and Semantics, Vol.4. New York, NY: Academic Press: 181–231.Google Scholar
1988 Force dynamics in language and cognition. Cognitive Science 12, (1): 49–100. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
1996 The windowing of attention in language. In M. Shibatani & S. Thompson (eds.). Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford: OUP: 235–238.Google Scholar
2000 Toward a Cognitive Semantics (Volume I): Concept Structuring Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
2006 A windowing onto conceptual structure and language. Part 2. Language and cognition: Past and future. Leonard Talmy interviewed by Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuano[J]. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (4): 253–268.Google Scholar
2007 Attention phenomena. In D. Geeraerts & H. Cuyckens (eds.). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 264–293.Google Scholar
2010 Ten Lectures on Cognitive Semantics. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社 (Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Teaching).Google Scholar
Wang, Guoshuan 王国栓
2005 《趋向问题研究》 (Research on Trend Problems). 北京：华夏出版社 (Beijing, China: Huaxia Press).Google Scholar
Wang, Yiguang 王宜广, Gong, Lingqiang 宫领强
2015 “动趋式“V开”的语义扩展路径 [Semantic Expansion Path of Tendency “V Kai”].” 《汉语学习》 (Chinese Language Learning) (1): 38–46.Google Scholar
Zhou, Hong 周红
2017 “从驱动路径—图式看“V开”结构的语义 [Seeing the Semantics of “V Kai” Structure from the Driving Path-Schema]” 语言研究 (Studies in Language and Linguistics) (1): 19–28.Google Scholar