A Study of Connotative Meanings from the Perspective of Anthropocentrism

摘要：

　　Words have connotative sense owing to anthropocentrism,whereby words acquire meaning when what they refer to is known and matters to humans,and when they reference subjects or entities that are related to human life,identity or experience.Anthropocentrism also denotes that the meaning of a word is subject to the degree of human cognition of the entities or concepts the words refer to.This paper explores anthropocentrism embodied in connotative meanings,such as commendatory and derogatory meanings,and in extended lexical meanings through metonymy and metaphor in the forms of personification,animalization and plantification.

关键词： anthropocentrism connotative meaning metaphor metonymy

作者: Yongzhi Liu

作者单位: School of History and Culture,Sichuan University,Chengdu,China;College of Foreign Languages and Cultures,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2016东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2016NALLTS)

会议地点: 宁夏银川

会议语种:英文

页码: 6-10

在线出版日期: 2016-08-02（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）