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Date Published: 30/06/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4845
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Vol. 38 No. 3
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Research
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Tuan Long, D., & Thi Huyen Trang, V. (2022). THE MEANING TRANSFERENCE FROM SPATIAL TO NON-SPATIAL MEANINGS OF BELOW. VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 38(3), 88-100. https://doi.org/10.25073/2525-2445/vnufs.4845

THE MEANING TRANSFERENCE FROM SPATIAL TO NON-SPATIAL MEANINGS OF BELOW

Do Tuan Long1,, Vu Thi Huyen Trang1
1 University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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Abstract

This paper analyses the meaning transference from spatial to non-spatial ones of below as a preposition, an adverb, and a particle within the 2017 Corpus of Contemporary American English, Genre: Fiction. Making use of a combination between Multimodal Image Theory and Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory, we have shown that the prototypical meaning of below has two variants in its Visual space, and two non-spatial meanings namely Less and Inferior. The mechanism of meaning transference is mappings in which salient aspects of absence of contact, force, and occlusion between the TR and LM are retained in construing the non-spatial scenes associated with the word. 

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below, meaning transference, Multimodal Image Theory, Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

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