The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

   "La la la la la..."

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

   "What makes you so happy?" Dany asked with a smile.

   After hearing that Vivien Leigh became Zhou Hexuan's girlfriend and also attended the royal ball, her best friend Danni reconciled with her, and often asked about aristocratic things. In particular, Prince Albert actually stuttered, making Dany scream in surprise and begging Vivien Leigh to call her next time at the noble ball.

   Vivien Leigh arranged the magazines in her hands neatly, placed them on the shop floor, and smiled sweetly: "It's all about Xuan."

  Danni felt sour, but showed a bright smile. She casually opened a magazine and read it, only to see the article read:

"Mr. Zhou Hexuan, a writer from the Far East, has recently made a new interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Mr. Zhou believes that the expression of metaphors for dramatic emotions depends on the conceptualization of metaphors. Metaphors are our cognitive tools for conceptualizing abstract categories. An important method for understanding human cognitive ability, which allows cognitive subjects to obtain meaning and experience dramatic emotions in the process of judging and reasoning about propositions or conceptual structures...

Mr. Zhou believes that to recognize Shakespeare's plays is to recognize an encyclopedia that represents the achievements of the Renaissance in the entire European civilization, to recognize the historical, social, religious and cultural background of that era, as well as to recognize the then People break through the constraints of the Middle Ages, transcend abstract existence, and admire real human life, interests, values, talents, dignity and achievements...

  Shakespeare’s plays use some image schemas reflected by metaphors to express people’s experience and experience of the times at that time, such as “Hamlet” representing the tragic theme of the disease intention schema, and representing the hatred theme of the hunting intention schema…

The cognitive process of    Shakespeare's plays is actually the psychological process of reconstructing the metaphorical concept of Shakespeare's plays. In this process, the presentation of different thematic images 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 metaphor of Shakespeare's plays is undoubtedly a major breakthrough in recent drama research, and he has opened a new door to the drama research community. "

  Dani read the article in a daze, and said in confusion, "I still don't seem to understand."

   Vivien Leigh said with a smile: "I didn't understand much, but as long as I know that Xuan is very powerful."

   Metaphors in Shakespeare’s plays have always existed and have been studied frequently. However, in the past hundred years, the "Shakespeare academic circle" has debated whether the imitation function of tragedy exists or not, leading to different views on Shakespeare's imagery and metaphor.

  Image-Semantic School holds that imagery is a tragic view of life with poetic qualities. Kellerman emphasized the relationship between image form and content to the development of the plot. Holmann 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 that metaphors in Shakespeare’s plays are long-winded and redundant sentences.

   Zhou Hexuan now proposes the concept of cognitive linguistics and understands the metaphors in Shakespeare's plays from a cognitive point of view, which instantly caused a sensation in the entire British theatre industry.

   Many people support Zhou Hexuan's research idea, and many people stand up against it, thinking that Zhou Hexuan's set is a fallacy.

Gassett of the Oxford School wrote an article to retort: ​​"Metaphor is a useless figure of speech, it drowns out and dissolves the subject, and has no other function except to defraud the manuscript. When writing plays, you should use straightforward language, direct Metaphors in Shakespeare’s plays are not as complicated as Zhou Hexuan’s analysis, they are just a common creative method, and we should not over-interpret them.”

   In just a few days, the cultural and theatrical circles in the UK were arguing. One group supported Zhou Hexuan's point of view and conducted in-depth research on it, while the other group mocked Zhou Hexuan's interpretation as superfluous and a retrograde study of the idea of ​​drama creation.

   At the same time, British linguistics also began to pay attention to the cognitive linguistics proposed by Zhou Hexuan. Some linguists even wrote to the publishing house, asking Zhou Hexuan about the details of cognitive linguistics.

   Zhou Hexuan replied very generously and recounted 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. pig". This is the metaphor, people are not pigs, but they can be as stupid as pigs.

   After replying to the letter, Zhou Hexuan simply 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 Prague School and Copenhagen School. Like the Prague School, which specializes in the branch of "Functional Linguistics", there is also the American Structuralism School in the United States.

The "cognitive linguistics" proposed by Zhou Hexuan is not only different from the current mainstream traditional linguistics, but also different from the emerging "structural linguistics", which immediately aroused the interest of many British linguists. School", and then spread to the United States and France to form the "Paris School" and the "New York School".

   Zhou Hexuan's new interpretation of Shakespeare's plays has been inconclusive in the UK, with many supporters and many opponents. On the contrary, the "cognitive linguistics" proposed by him spread rapidly in the UK, and blossomed and brewed many branches.

   By the early 1940s, "cognitive linguistics" and "structural linguistics" had become two emerging schools of linguistics in the world.

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

   Zhou Hexuan is also recognized as the founder of "cognitive linguistics" and plays an important role in linguistics. In fact, Zhou Hexuan only wrote one paper, which 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 later generations mention Zhou Hexuan, the title of "linguist" cannot be removed. No one doubts this, and even some Zhou Hexuan researchers swear that Mr. Zhou speaks more than 20 languages ​​and dialects.

   There are also good people compiling lace stories. For example, when Mr. Zhou first arrived in a certain country, he could not speak the language. He fell in love with a local girl and lived together and learned the language there. This kind of nonsense love legend was actually made into a movie, and was sued by Zhou Hexuan's descendants in court.