New Phrases to Talk about Work Life in China

Authors

  • Kou Danyang

Keywords:

metonymy, metaphor, Chinese, context

Abstract

The paper is a small-scale study about eight newly created Chinese phrases in workplace in 2011, which are creative ways of talking about work life and health, new professions, working staff, and company. A cognitive linguistic perspective with a focus on metonymy and metaphor will be applied to analyze how Chinese people produce and interpret these new phrases at the workplace. In addition, various contextual factors will be considered in the analysis to reveal how they function in the creation and comprehension processes of the new phrases.

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Published

2013-06-15

How to Cite

Danyang, K. (2013). New Phrases to Talk about Work Life in China. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 1(2). Retrieved from https://ajouronline.com/index.php/AJHSS/article/view/253

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