IN THE VIEW OF CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION IN THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article discusses the use of the content word 鸭 (duck) instead of the modal particle 呀 in Chinese as a result of mental transformation, which is based on conceptual integration. The materials in Chinese with the use of 鸭 instead of 呀 have been collected from various Internet resources. The object of research is the use of 鸭 instead of 呀, due to the theory of conceptual integration. The subject of research is the linguistic means of expressing the conceptual integration of cognitive spaces “poultry” – “modal particle” – use of 鸭 instead of 呀. The task of the research is to show the importance of the process of conceptual integration in changing the primary meaning and the emergence of a new use of linguistic units. In the work, methods of component and cognitive analysis are used. The paper concludes that the mixed space of the use of 鸭 instead of 呀 became possible due to the projection of cognitive features of the two input mental spaces content word 鸭 (duck) and modal particle 呀, while homophony plays a decisive role based on the identical pronunciation of hieroglyphs with the meaning “ poultry” 鸭 (ya) and the modal particle 呀 (ya).