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标题：Theoretical Analyses on How Human Cognition Is Related to Spatial Metaphor
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作者：Hu, Pan
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：700-706
DOI：10.4304/tpls.4.4.700-706
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Cognitive structures and processes are part of human mind, which emerges from a brain and nervous system inside of a body that exists in a social and physical world. This article deals with the theories on human cognition and spatial metaphor, centering around their close relation on the basis of the understanding of spatial world, cognitive maps, spatial learning and development, navigation. Furthermore, the cognitive imageries of spatial metaphor is demonstrated in figures. With the knowledge of the spatial cognition of the world, five cognitive natures of spatial metaphor which are non-arbitrary, creativity, systematicity, multidimentinality and sociality are discussed.
关键词：human cognition;spatial world;imagery;spatial metaphor