The Mechanism Behind Idioms Meaning Extension

摘要：

　　Meaning extension is an important mechanism by virtue of which new idioms are produced.Guided by the Principle of Economy,language users reanalyze the meanings of original idiomatic expressions,their semantic focus and the construction of their components,thus get a different explanation of the original idioms based on a new understanding of their literal meanings,which eventually lead to the semantic evolution.

关键词： Idioms Extended meaning Reanalysis Principle of Economy

作者: Hongyan Liu Peicui Zhang Baopeng Ma

作者单位: Hebei Finance University,Baoding,China Henan University,Kaifeng,China China University of Mining and Technology,Xuzhou,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Chinese Lexical Semantics 15th Workshop(CLSW 2014)(第十五届汉语词汇语义学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 澳门

会议语种:英文

页码: 66-74

在线出版日期: 2014-06-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）