Author：Yin Wang

Abstract: Postmodernist philosophy, has undergone three major periods: humanism and criticism, deconstruction, and constructionism and embodied-cognitivity. Dr. Wang Zhihe regards the third period as the second Enlightenment, which offers a new way for the research of philosophical history. To our mind, postmodernism has appeared not only in literature, culture and philosophy, but also in linguistics. Systemic Functional and Cognitive Linguistics has broken away from the bondage of modernist mechanical theory, and has many features of organic linguistics, but lacks the conscious perspective of philosophical theory for the probe of the organic relationship between linguistics and philosophy. In contrast, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics (ECL for short), based on the second Enlightenment and Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy, has probed this organic relationship...

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Author：Zhiyi Zhang,Shuxian Zhang

Abstract: The long-distance reflexives in Chinese pose challenges to traditional GT and pragmatic explanation in the light of explanatory adequacy. Under the guidance of ECL, the typological linguistic analysis of 16 Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages given by the present study generalizes the semantic and syntactic features of reflexives. From the ECL perspective, the long-distance bound reflexives are the results of interactions among the economy and principles of language and the clarity of cognition. The barrier effect of the long-distance bound simple reflexive ziji can be best explained by cognitive person prominence and optimization principle of interations between language and cognition. The possessive reflexive is essentially long-distance bound reflexive and the concerning phenomenon can be best explained by the headedness principle and cognitive animacy effects. ..

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Author：Yi Sun, Cihang Cui

Abstract: Wang Yin's proposition of Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics is a localization architecture on the basis of embodied philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics, its kernel principle being "embodied cognition." With the profile of embodied-cognitive humanism in this field, this paper is an attempt at a cross-linguistic study concerning foot metaphors based upon the conceptual nature of metaphor and theoretical construction of contemporary metaphorology. A large abundance of mapping types as well as image categories of foot metaphors have been concluded and organised. The similarity and differences between foot metaphors in Chinese and English are also analyzed in depth through with a dual-dimensional theoretical paradigm: embodied cognition from Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics in conjunction with cultural entailments within the scope of contemporary metaphorology. Taken together,

Column：Embodied Cognitive Linguistics Studies   145-156   Details