"Lalalala......"

Vivien Leigh hummed an unknown tune, held a few magazines in her hand, and ran back to the school dormitory.

"What's so pleased?" Dani asked with a smile.

After hearing that Vivien Leigh became Zhou Hexuan's girlfriend and also attended the royal ball, her best friend Dani reconciled with her and often inquired about some things about the aristocracy. In particular, Prince Albert actually stuttered, which shocked Dani and begged Vivien Leigh to call her next time she attended the Noble Ball.

Vivien Leigh arranged the magazines in her hand neatly, put them on the general, and smiled sweetly: "It's all about Xuan's articles." ”

Dani's heart was sour, but she showed a bright smile, and she opened a magazine casually and read it, only to see that the article read:

Mr. Zhou Hexuan, a writer from the Far East, recently made a new interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Mr. Zhou believes that the embodiment of metaphor to dramatic emotion depends on the conceptualization of metaphor, which is our cognitive tool for conceptualizing abstract categories, and is an important method to understand human cognitive ability, which allows cognitive subjects to gain meaning and experience dramatic emotions in the process of judging and reasoning about propositions or conceptual structures......

For hundreds of years, Shakespeare's plays have been translated into many languages, and it is difficult for various versions to retain their original flavor. Mr. Zhou believes that translating Shakespeare's plays is to translate an encyclopedia that represents the achievements of the civilization of the Renaissance throughout Europe, and is to reproduce the historical, social, religious and cultural background of that era, as well as the existence of people at that time who broke through the shackles of the Middle Ages and transcended abstraction, as well as the admiration for real human life, interests, values, talents, dignity and achievements.

Shakespeare's plays express people's experiences and experiences of the times through some imagery schemas reflected in metaphors, such as the schema of disease intention representing the theme of tragedy in Hamlet, and the schema of hunting intention representing the theme of hatred.

The cognitive process of Shakespeare's plays is actually the psychological process of reconstructing the metaphorical concepts of Shakespeare's plays. In this process, the presentation of different thematic imagery of Shakespeare's plays requires the following steps to analyze the reproduction of the meaning and emotion of the play...... Mr. Zhou Hexuan's reinterpretation of the metaphors of Shakespeare's plays is undoubtedly a major breakthrough in recent drama studies, and he has opened a new door for the field of drama studies. ”

Dani finished reading the article in a daze, confused, and said, "I still don't seem to have read it." ”

Vivien Li smiled: "I don't understand much either, but as long as I know that Xuan is very powerful." ”

Metaphors in Shakespeare's plays have always existed, and they are often studied. However, in the past 100 years, the "Shakespeare academic community" has debated the existence or non-existence of the mimetic function of tragedy, leading to different views on Shakespearean imagery and English.

The image-semantic school believes that imagery is the law of life of tragedy with poetic qualities. Kellerman emphasized the relationship between the form and content of imagery and the development of the plot, and Murman regarded imagery as the essence of intuitive language and advocated the expression of ideas through media.

As for the Oxford School, they have always believed that metaphors are useless, and even more so that metaphors in Shakespeare's plays are verbose and superfluous.

Zhou Hexuan now proposed the concept of cognitive linguistics and understood the metaphors in Shakespeare's plays from a cognitive perspective, which instantly caused a sensation in the entire British theater world.

Many people support Zhou Hexuan's research ideas, and many people stand up to oppose it, believing that Zhou Hexuan's set is a fallacy and heresy.

Gassett of the Oxford School retorted: "Metaphor is a useless figure of speech, which drowns out and dissolves the subject, and serves no other purpose than to cheat the manuscript." When creating a play, you should use straightforward language to directly express your thoughts and themes. The metaphor in Shakespeare's plays is not as complex as Mr. Zhou Hexuan's analysis, it is just an ordinary creative method, and we should not over-interpret it. ”

In just a few days, the British cultural and theater circles quarreled, one group supported Zhou Hexuan's views and conducted in-depth research on it, and the other group ridiculed Zhou Hexuan's interpretation as purely superfluous and belonged to a regressive study of the concept of drama creation.

At the same time, the British linguistic community has also begun to pay attention to the cognitive linguistics proposed by Zhou Hexuan. Some linguists even wrote letters to publishers asking Zhou Hexuan for details on cognitive linguistics.

Zhou Hexuan replied very generously and told the story of cognitive linguistics from the beginning.

For example, metaphor theory is divided into three types in cognitive linguistics, namely ontological metaphor, structural metaphor and orientation metaphor - metaphor does not only exist in literary works, but is often used in our daily speech, such as scolding people and saying "you pig". This is the metaphor, people are not pigs, but they can be as stupid as pigs.

After replying, Zhou wrote a paper on cognitive linguistics and published it in a British academic journal.

Nowadays, a kind of "structural linguistics" is emerging in the West, often named after cities, such as the Prague School and the Copenhagen School. For example, the Prague School is a branch that specializes in "functional linguistics", and there is also the American structuralist school in the United States.

The "cognitive linguistics" proposed by Zhou Hexuan, which is different from the current mainstream traditional linguistics and the emerging "structural linguistics", immediately aroused the interest of many British linguists, and even formed a "London School" in the mid-30s, and then spread to the United States and France to form the "Paris School" and "New York School".

Zhou Hexuan's new interpretation of Shakespeare's plays has been inconclusive in England, and there are many supporters and opponents. On the contrary, it was the "cognitive linguistics" he proposed that spread rapidly in Britain and blossomed into many branches.

By the early 40s, "cognitive linguistics" and "structural linguistics" had become the two emerging schools of linguistics in the world.

During World War II, Zhou Hexuan's "cognitive linguistics" was even used as an anti-fascist weapon by some European scholars. Because of this linguistic theory, full attention is paid to the cognitive characteristics of different ethnic groups and their influence on language expression, and the research results of scholars from various countries have distinct national characteristics.

Zhou Hexuan is also recognized as the founder of "cognitive linguistics" and plays a pivotal role in the field of linguistics. In fact, Zhou Hexuan only wrote a paper that roughly expounded the basic theory of "cognitive linguistics", and the rest of the content had to be supplemented by later researchers.

But no matter what, when Zhou Hexuan is mentioned in later generations, the title of "linguist" cannot be removed. No one doubts this, and even some of Zhou's researchers swear that Mr. Zhou speaks more than 20 languages and dialects.

There are also good deeds who make up lace stories, such as Mr. Zhou's language barrier when he first arrived in a certain country, and he fell in love with a local girl and learned the language there. This kind of nonsense love legend was actually made into a movie, and it was sued by Zhou Hexuan's descendants in court.