Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Review of revelant literature -- Chapter 3. Theoretical basis and methodology -- Chapter 4. Categorization of Chinese borrowings -- Chapter 5. Motivation and semantic model of foreign-inspired Chinese terms -- Chapter 6. Sensory perceptual production -- Chapter 7. Metaphorical production -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index
Summary
This book aims to classify the word production of foreign-inspired Chinese terms (FICT), within the language system of modern Chinese according to principles of cognitive semantics. FICT refers to a group of vocabulary items in Chinese that are formed and motivated by foreign entities or concepts. These words are designated by some foreign words, but no established foreign elements are in fact transferred from the donor language. Cognitive semantics, the approach adopted by this book, is the study of the mind and its relationship with embodied experience and culture. The book establishes a gro
