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2024-03-12

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Vol. 9 No. 6 (2024)

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Jie, Z., & feng, L. R. (2024). The cognitive and psychological mechanism of Chinese oxymoron “tough women”. Environment and Social Psychology, 9(6). https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v9i6.2336

The cognitive and psychological mechanism of Chinese oxymoron “tough women”

ZHENG Jie

Sichuan International Studies University

LUO Rui feng

Chongqing Medical University


DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/esp.v9i6.2336


Keywords: oxymoron, “tough women”, cognitive linguistics, conceptual integration

Abstract

Oxymoron refers to juxtaposing two words that are semantically contradictory to each other in language communication, which makes them have rhetorical connection, and achieves the modification effect of binary opposition through the antonym relationship in semantic components, and which makes the expression profound and more tense. Based on the theory of cognitive linguistics, this study analyzes the formation mechanism of the oxymoron “tough women” from the perspective of “reality-cognition-language” and discusses the cognitive and psychological mechanism of its formation. Conceptual blending theory is used to form the oxymoron conceptual integration prominent model of “tough women”. It is found that the formation of the word “tough women” has a long historical reasons. From ancient times to modern times, because women’s social status changes with the changes of objective social forms, based on physical experience and psychological perception of different times, people form their concepts about the “tough women”. Dynamic cognitive processing of “female” is carried out to form an abstract image schema of modern “tough women”, which integrates the traditional weak characteristic domain of women and the strong male characteristic domain in psychological space, and a theoretical model of conceptual integration of oxymoron is put forward.

Author Biography

ZHENG Jie, Sichuan International Studies University

School of Bussiness English

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