Abstract
Modern Chinese expresses the spatial relationship by a variety of means. Spatial perspectives profoundly influence the grammatical and semantic structures, which is especially embodied in the effect of the subjective perspective on direction expression. There are two reasons for this. One is that the perspective embodies the speaker’s subjective construal ways to a large extent, which leads to the subjectivity of language’s perspective, the other is that as one of the most basic cognitive domains, spatial domain takes direction expression as its important part in the language level. KeywordsSpatial perspective; direction expressions; modern Chinese
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