文档介绍：韶关学院
毕业论文
题目:The Logical and Metaphorical Mechanism of English Polysemy
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系(院): 外语学院英语系
专业: 英语
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起止时间: 2005年11月—2006年5月
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES SCHOOL
Shaoguan University
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The Logical and Metaphorical Mechanism of Polysemy in English
Abstract: As mon phenomenon in language development, polysemy is a pervasive enquiry of numerous linguists and a host of reasons have been exhibited to explain the trail of the developmental process of polysemy (change of meaning). For example, the primary meaning and the derivative meaning, the central signification and the secondary meaning are two items of explanations. However, they are only two aspects of the reasons that it emerges. In order to discover the mysteries in it, this paper sets out to deeper the discussing of such a question. According to many evidences, this paper proves that metaphor is the root of the development of polysemy (change of meaning), and it also researches on the process of polysemy. As we know, inference is a pattern and form of acquiring new results in logic. On the other hand, metaphor also has a function to create new meaning. Due to this similarity, this pares metaphor with logic inference and tries to find out the logic mechanism of metaphor. After all these works, the reason and the process of polysemy will be clear, and it is much easier to understand the phenomenon of polysemy and t