Textile production played a significant role in
Ancient China and the related expressions entered into the scope of daily life.
The present research intends to study the conceptual metaphors involving thread
or string in Chinese and sheds some light on Chinese cognition of guān-xì (关系 relation) or lián-xì (联系 link). On the basis of
data collected from Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL) and Modern Chinese
Dictionary, an investigation of experiential-based conceptual metaphors of
thread is made, in terms of the prototypicality and image schema of LINK.
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