Relational change constitutes the first salient application domain of pò. Inthis domain, the given context of war contributes to the intensional value of pò.Pò is pervasively used to designate the defeating of the adversary, the controllingof a country or...[继续阅读]

    Situated in a usage-based background, specific usages of the abovementioned keywords are coded in accordance with the distributional hypothesis,namely differences in function/meaning are reflected in the difference indistribution (Harris 1954; Firth 1957;...[继续阅读]

    Despite the fact that prototype theory has been tested against both naturaland semantic categories, it is primarily employed to work on categories existentin a certain culture at a given time (Rosch 1977). In view of this, Geeraerts (1983,1997, 1998) exte...[继续阅读]

    To sum up the historical development of intensional pò, Figure 6.7 chartsthe diachronic trajectory and the semantic interaction of the multiple readings ofpò. The emergence and disappearance of various readings of pò fully illustratethat the huge gulf bet...[继续阅读]

    To conclude, along with cognitive, social, and cultural development,the conceptual range of pò evolves through a specialization trajectory. Theprototypical core of pò narrows down its scope through giving up the coverageof opening stiff objects and cuttin...[继续阅读]

    Generally speaking, lexical items constitute a subtype of linguistic structurethat “represents a way of conceptualizing experience in the process of encodingit and expressing it in language” (Croft 1999: 77). The referential changeof lexical items indicat...[继续阅读]

    As a prototypical category, pò represents events of separation state change.Its category members are specific events of separation state change. To revealwhat conceptual variation pathway extensional pò undergoes, MCA is utilizedto map its category member...[继续阅读]

    Conceptualization pattern refers to the formation of concepts or relationsin the human mind. It shows how concepts are formed and categorized interms of variable attributes that human is concerned with and thus reflects thesegmentation and organization of...[继续阅读]

    In conclusion, this chapter captures the diachronic specialization trajectoryof extensional pò based on its prototypically organized conceptual structure. Asrevealed above, the prototypical core of pò has undergone a narrowing trend andgradually restricts...[继续阅读]

    The first principle is “conceptual adjustment”. This principle involveseither the realignment of the conceptual boundary or the rectification of theprototypical center. The narrowing or expansion at the conceptual boundaryof a linguistic item usually lead...[继续阅读]