Reading of Qing Ming and its derivative forms—From the Perspective of Cognitive Poetics
Abstract
Chinese poetry plays an important part in Chinese literature, and has been the focus of research and the way for Chinese people savor life and for their self-cultivation. The appearance of cognitive poetics shed the new light on the research of literature, especially on poetry. It rose up from the 1970s, combining the theories of literature and those of linguistics, and emphasized the recording and interpreting the psychological state of readers or, simply their reading of the texts which involves information processing, individual psychological states, it was naturally connected with the researches on the mind, cognition, and of course the investigation of language itself. This paper mainly attempts to applying cognitive linguistic theories to interpreting a very renowned Chinese ancient poem Qing Ming, written by Du.mu, a poet from Tang dynasty, and meanwhile digs it deeper about the above phenomena: various combinations of the same elements should have such different artistic and aesthetic effect.References
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