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- Title
On the Image Schemas of Time Expressions in the Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of Ancient China's Shang Dynasty.
- Authors
Fei Deng; Xu Wen
- Abstract
Image schema is a kind of cognitive model consisted of fixed semantic factors and semantic relations, which is used to explain the source of the language structure. The academics use it to successfully analyze modern syntax structure. However, we do not know whether it can explain all of the language units, especially those in the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, especially ancient Chinese. This paper uses the time expressions in the oracle-bone inscriptions in the Shang dynasty (dated from 16 century B.C. to 11 century B.C.) in ancient China to study the structure of the language unit from phrases to the language unit between the phrases and sentences based on the Image Schema Theory. This paper proves that the Image Schemas Theory can interpret the language units represented by time expressions in the oracle-bone inscriptions. It also clarifies that the difficult time expressions can not be analyzed in the structuralism theory. We have found three fundamental image schemas existing in the time expressions in the oracle-bone inscriptions. All time expressions can be analyzed by these three fundamental image schemas properly.
- Subjects
SHANG dynasty, China, 1766-1122 B.C.; LANGUAGES in China; SINO-Tibetan languages; INSCRIPTIONS; STRUCTURALISM (Literary analysis); SCHEMAS (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Sino-Western Communications, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
2153-0114
- Publication type
Article