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Compositionality as a Prototypical Category

语言与认知科学 / 2016,2(1)：69−97 / 2016-08-26 look

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1.Nanjing Normal University;
2.Beijing-based Society for Intelligence Studies

关键词： Chinese four-character idioms; Cognitive Linguistics; compositionality; idiom classification
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摘要： This paper proposes a classification of Chinese four-character idioms into prototypical categories of high, medium, and low compositionality on the basis of a cognitive linguistic approach to compositionality. Traditional views of idiomaticity usually regard idioms as “dead” metaphors, ruling out any compositional analysis of their constituent words to derive their idiomatic meanings. However, Cognitive Linguistics takes a contrary view of meanings of constituent parts and meanings of idioms comprised of these parts. It is proposed in this paper that the constituents of some idioms possess identifiable meanings associated with idiomatic meanings and compositionality can be regarded as a feasible criterion for sorting Chinese idioms. In light of the degree of contribution given by individual Chinese characters’ meanings to the stipulated figurative meanings, Chinese idioms can be classified into three types, i.e. as having a high, medium, or low degree of compositionality. The introspection-based classification and a series of rating studies have been justified within the Cognitive Linguistic framework of Idiomatic Activation-Set (Langlotz, 2006).
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DOI： https://doi.org/10.35534/LCS201602004
引用： Hui Zhang, Feng Ji. Compositionality as a Prototypical Category［J］．Language and Cognitive Science，2016，2（1）：69−97．