1. Introduction

This chapter introduces the focus of the paper, which is the analysis of the Chinese catchphrase construction shejian shang de X. It discusses the evolution and widespread adoption of this construction in various contexts. The paper aims to reveal the meaning construction of shejian shang de X from the perspective of cognitive linguistics by focusing on distinguishing it from the Chinese classic construction PP de X, the interpretation of its modifier components shejian and shang, and accessing its dynamic meaning through the Conceptual Integration Framework.

2. Literature Review

This chapter discusses the syntactic and semantic features of the Chinese modifier-head construction PP de X, focusing on spatial relationships between X and the reference point conveyed by the PP, the construction's functional substitute by X, and the restrictive alternatives available for X. It also examines the catchphrase construction shejian shang de X and its differences from the classic PP de X, and explores the motivations behind its prevalence and popularity.

3. A Decompositional Analysis of Shejian Shang de X

kin in speech])Some “daddy’s boys,” anyway, already be fasten in the erect at shejian shang PM shame pole on“Some ‘daddy’s boys’ in any case, have already been fastened on the erect shame pole in speech. ”

(24) 南昌“舌尖上的英语”：年桔年桔。Nanchang “shejian shang de yingyu”：nianju nianju. (= [the English in speech])Nanchang “shejian shang PM English”：tangerine tangerine“The English in Nanchang in speech: tangerine tangerine.”The concerned examples indicate that shejian here is metaphorically taken as a symbol for ‘mouth’ and X, often a noun phrase, refers to something about speaking or talking in the Chinese social context.Type 6: shejian shang de X = [eloquent or talkative X](25) 舌尖上的阿拉伯文。Shejian shang de Alabowen.(= [eloquent or talkative Arabic language])Shejian shang PM Arabic language“The talkative Arabic language in speaking.”The construction here enjoys superficial popularity in comparison with the former types, and it can be frequently seen in newspapers and social media platforms.

Paper chapter: 4. Conclusion and Afterword

4.1 ConclusionThe thorough inspection in the previous sections has examined the decompositional properties of the novel Chinese construction shejian shang de X at different levels. Statistics in the corpus are collected to analyze X’s lexical category and the relevance of the constructional meaning to X, with an emphasis on nouns, verbs, adjectives, and their categories. The corpus statistics provide the authentic usages of the construction and the multiple interactions between fillers and the preposition de. It demonstrates the evolutionary pattern from spatial language employed to denote gourmet perspectives to extended semantic usage, acting as a metaphorical and metonymical shift derived from the named documentary. Our findings show that the emergence and development of bilabial liquids (arising as an abstract term, not as unsyllabified [rl]) might be closely associated with the semantic significance of the construction.

We have the reason to suggest that the formation of shejian shang de X has overridden the syntactic and semantic restrictions imposed by the classic space-modifier construction. The type and lexical category of X’s fillers become more and more diversified in the naturalistic data, a further indicating in the documentary, ringing out the symphony of sematicity and filling slots in the catchphrase construction. It is our hope that our results will provide insights not only for a better understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of linguistic variation and change but also for developing more sophisticated and more comprehensive theories in the domain of linguistic change.

We can also expect that the commercial slogans or ads pray for the catchphrase construction because of its attractive force rooted in cultural knowledge and cooperative principle among mankind. And we can anticipate more and more entertainment stories or novels, composed itself as creative marketing ploys or as popular concepts, showing awareness and comprehension of the space-tuned gourmet perspective and its connotation, at the level of ad copy creation, story creation, manipulated and represented in media platform and everyday language.Collecting all the data in one plate, we have demonstrated in this paper the decomposed semantics from the earliest spatial metaphor to extended food-related, language practice-related or speech-related senses. Such a creative phenomenon is reflexed through the employment of former space preposition and contextual shifting to cope with the relationship between the filer and the de phrase. Our hope is that our findings are valuable in a broader predictive perspective, i.e., they might also hold for changes in other languages, other cultures, and serve to challenge current chronologies of world language history.

After the symphony of sematicity rang itself out, music is still ringing. We expect more students of Chinese linguistics or general linguistics will be sensitive to cognitive approaches to grammar study, such as the metaphorical shift, the metonymical appearance, and the decompositional semantics these include. Also, we hope students will pay more attention to the employment of language in contemporary media, corporate and entertainment stories, grammar studies, as well as the dynamics in Chinese language history. Written and spoken language is polymorphous and ready to change in the course of human mind cognition and instant talk. Meanwhile, this paper might be challenged with broader techniques in research design and theory development. Such as, more refined historical data and the interaction between more structures counterparts in language structure, include their temporal sequencing and geographic fluctuation and novel cognitive theories.

The authors poise the notion that our detailed findings and concrete examples in shejian shang de X will hold significant implications for future research in semantics, lexicon, cognitive science and Chinese and world language history. With this review and data analysis, we expect this paper to have contributed more inspiration and wider visions than any current linguistic study on semantic structure or linguistic change has. This is a movie in our mind beyond words. Thank you.

4. Meaning Construction of Shejian Shang de X

This section analyzes how the meaning construction of shejian shang de X is carried out by going through the surface incompatibility between the modifier and the head. Specifically, the first two parts discuss the meaning construction of the modifiers (shejian and shang, respectively), and the third part adopts the conceptual integration theory to explore how the different parts (modifier and head) are integrated to produce the emergent meaning, a blended novel idea. Shang goes through metaphorization and grammaticalization processes in the catchphrase construction shejian shang de X. Shejian, as a body-part term, is involved in two types of metonymies: single-mapping metonymy and chained metonymies.

5. Concluding Remarks

This chapter discusses the analysis of the meaning construction of the catchphrase construction shejian shang de X. It is found that the construction is a variant of modifier-head construction, with variations in X’s category choices and the types of meanings it conveys. The non-compositionality of the construction is due to the incompatibility between its components, requiring the use of conceptual blending. It is also found to be a polysemous construction, with meanings constructed dynamically along with the change of contexts.