부산대학교 도서관

The purpose of this paper is to cognitive semantic study which is properties and aspects of metaphor that take effect on meaning of Chinese idioms. For the purpose of this study, first, the conception of metaphor was grounded through Gibbs and Nayak(1989). Then I made researches the properties and the aspects of metaphor which took effect on meaning of Chinese idioms. For the purpose of this study I defined concept of idiom from the cognitive semantic point of view. That is, idioms are not only that the meaning of idiom can't be composed of its words' meaning, but also that the meaning of idiom can be composed of its words' meaning which are motivated. And on the basis of this definition, I prescribed that the semantic properties of idiom are ‘compositionality of idiom's meaning’ and ‘degreed of idiom's meaning’. As a result of this study, the aspects of metaphor which took effect on meaning of Chinese idioms were the much almost the same as Gibbs and Nayak(1989).