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Wu, Yanting – English Language Teaching, 2022
This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the projection of Chinese "shen" and English "deep" from the spatial domain to other domains of time, sense, emotion, behavior, and society from a cognitive perspective by using the comparative and contrastive method, explaining the universality and differences of SHEN and DEEP…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Second Language Learning
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Yang, Hongyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
Discourse coherence is a common phenomenon in linguistic studies, and plays an important role in discourse analysis. As a common and extremely important type of language phenomena, discourse coherence has drawn more and more scholars' attention, but they emphasis on partial discourse coherence, paying a little attention to holistic coherence. The…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse, Guidelines, Stereotypes
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Singh, Amrendra Kumar; Mishra, Nirbhay – English Language Teaching, 2012
What we know through language is whether the way things are or the ways the things are constructed through anthropological tradition and socio cultural shaping. Actually at the very outset, it is not very clear the settling point of this query. However, we can very well understand the point why a critical understanding of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Sociocultural Patterns, Anthropology, Psycholinguistics
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Guan, Jialing – English Language Teaching, 2009
Metonymy is an important means for people to know the world and enrich the language; and it is a way of thinking used widely in people's daily life. This paper illustrates firstly the cognitive nature of metonymy in terms of its definition, classification and contiguity notion. Based on this, the author then studies the meaning extension and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Shen, Yanxia – English Language Teaching, 2008
Considering the difficulties in understanding the global meaning of texts, this paper intends to give some suggestions on how to help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensive reading classroom within the framework of schema theory. The purpose of this paper is expressed in three ways. The first is to give a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Schemata (Cognition), Reading Instruction, Language Processing