1st Edition
Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese Semantics A Cognitive Approach
Part I: Theories, Principles, Approaches, and Objectives 1. Introduction 2. Methodological Significance of the Approach Part II: Cognition of Time and Space and Essential Features of Language 3. Time-space Distinction vs. Time-space Conflation 4. A Time-space Conflation Account for the Opposition of Temporal Reference of “前(before)” and “后(after)” Part III: Embodiment and Linguistic Encoding 5. Embodied Cognition, Animacy, and Linguistic Codings 6. The Meaning and Functional Extension of Possessive Constructions and Their Constraints in Relation to Animacy Part IV: Definiteness and Cognitive Dynamics of Language 7. Definiteness in Noun Phrases 8. Definiteness of Predicate Verbs 9. Cognitive Semantic Contrastive Studies in the Future
Biography
Liu Zhengguang is a chair professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Hunan University in China. He is also the vice chairman of the China Association for the Comparative Study of English and Chinese. His research interests include contrastive studies of English and Chinese syntax and semantics, as well as language teaching. He has won two prestigious national awards: the Second Prize for Excellent Social Science Achievement in the 9th Session of China in 2023 and the Second Prize for the Xu Guozhang Award for Foreign Language Research, the highest award in the field, also in 2023.
