A Brief Analysis of the Metaphorical Meaning of "eat +NP"
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In modern Chinese, the verb-object structure composed of "eat +NP" is widely used in modern Chinese vocabulary, and has become an indispensable daily language. The archetypal sense of the verb "to eat" is to put food, etc. into the mouth and then swallow it. As a kind of behavior representing spatial structure, "eating" generates a series of metaphorical meanings through the metaphorical projection to the abstract cognitive domain similar to the structure. The systematization and coherence of conceptual metaphor are of great significance to the study of the semantic structure type of "eat +NP". Based on the conceptual metaphor theory, this paper analyzes the action metaphor meaning of the verb "eat" in Chinese, which can help people better understand the unconventional collocation of "eat".
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