Embodied semantics and pragmatics (Zhuo Jing-Schmidt)

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1、JournalofPragmatics43(2011)28262844ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectJournalofPragmaticsjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/pragmaEmbodiedsemanticsandpragmatics:Empathy,sympathyandtwo§passiveconstructionsinChinesemediadiscoursea,1,*,TingJingb,2ZhuoJing-SchmidtaDepartmentofEastAsianLanguage

2、sandLiterature,FriendlyHall308,1248UniversityofOregon,Eugene,OR97403,USAbHarbinNormalUniversity,CenterofMentalHealthandEducation,Li-MinDevelopmentDistrictofEconomyandTechnology,1Shi-DaSouthStreet,150025Harbin,ChinaARTICLEINFOABSTRACTArticlehistory:Thispaperexaminestheusagepatternsoftwopassivecons

3、tructions,theemergingzaoReceived5April2010constructionandtheconventionalbeiconstruction,inChinesemedialanguagewheretheReceivedinrevisedform5April2011distributionalratioofthezaoconstructiontothebeiconstructionisconspicuouslyhigherAccepted14April2011thaninothergenres.Thedifferenceisespeciallydramat

4、icinInternetnewsheadlines.ToAvailableonline26May2011accountfortheuses,weadoptacorpus-drivenconstructionistapproach,seekingtoidentifythesemanticsofthetwoconstructionsbymeansofcollostructionalanalysis.Keywords:Basedonthecorpusdata,wearguethatthetwoconstructionsdifferprimarilyintheEmpathySympathyspe

5、aker/writerssubjectiveexperienceoftheeventinwhichthepatientisaffected.EmbodimentSpecifically,weinvokethepsychologicalconstructsofempathyandsympathytoaccountPassiveconstructionsfortherespectivefunctionsofthetwopassiveconstructions.Thegenre-specificusageMedialanguagepatternsofthetwoconstructionsinthe

6、InternetnewsheadlinesareattributedtotheMandarinChinesepragmaticmanipulationofsemanticsforthepurposeofconstructingstanceandcreatingsensationalism.Cognitivepsychologicalinsightsonhumanemotion,cognitionandmoralityarediscussedinsupportofembodiedsemanticsandpragmatics.ß2011ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserve

7、d.1.IntroductionTheconventionalpassiveconstructioninMandarinChinese,asschematizedin(1),promotesthepatient(NP1)ofaneventtothesubject/topicpositionanddemotestheagent(NP2)toanoptionaloblique.Themorphemebeiservesasalexical