Human language reflects how they conceptualize what they experience in the world and how they interact with it. The most representative Perception verb pota has more than 15 situational meanings, but all of them are derived from one abstract basic mea...
Human language reflects how they conceptualize what they experience in the world and how they interact with it. The most representative Perception verb pota has more than 15 situational meanings, but all of them are derived from one abstract basic meaning which has a schema of a proto-scene. Many kinds of situations that people experience are the basis of Experiential-corelation, which gives rise to metonymic meaning activation. For the verb pota to be properly interpreted, Both of polysemy approach and monosemy approach are needed, for semantic network works on inference-based meaning activation mechanism and pragmatic strengthening based meaning entrenchment simultaneously.