Abstract
Embodied Neurobiological Perspective on the Survey Study of Conceptual Metaphors of Chinese Eating Verb 吃 Chi ‘Eating' Phrases
Highlights
Cognitive linguists believe that the proto-languages use the body as a reference to determine the environmental orientation, such as up and down, inside and outside as well as entrance and exit
This paper has considered a neurobiological point of view for the “eating” action and tried to shed some light on extending the meaning of embodied cognitive linguistics on Chinese eating verb phrases
We provided the results and its explanations of a questionnaire survey on “eating” verb phrases created for the modern general public
Summary
Cognitive linguists believe that the proto-languages use the body as a reference to determine the environmental orientation, such as up and down, inside and outside as well as entrance and exit. Inspired by Meyers and Ko [2], this paper investigates the embodied mind theory through comparing the “eating” action from a neurobiological point of view with Chinese eating verb 吃 Chi ‘eating’ and its phrases from the point of view of public language users. The author poses the following research questions: Eating is a basic daily action to ensure that humans survive. This action is involved with many human physiological processes, including muscle contraction, senses, brain functioning and requires the cooperation of many different human body parts. “concept” is about "integrating" various human perceptions or ideas. The hands retract to be back near the body this schema produces some mapping of the conceptual metaphor at the same time, such as take a shot, take it seriously, cannot take eyes off of her, or take literal meaning etc
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